An Amazing Promise - Do We Believe It?

Here's the promise!

I testify that when we do all we can to accomplish the work that is before us, the Lord will make available to us the sacred key needed to unlock the treasure which we so much seek.
-President Thomas S. Monson

Scripture study helps open up why and how the Lord is able to help us this way! Here is a link to online scriptures: Scriptures.LDS.org.

Trust Not in the Arm of the Flesh

These scriptural references kind of say it all, don't they:

2 Chr. 32: 8 With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord.
Ps. 20: 7 Some trust in chariots . . . but we will remember the name of the Lord.
Ps. 44: 6 I will not trust in my bow.
Ps. 146: 3 Put not your trust in princes.
Prov. 3: 5 lean not unto thine own understanding.
Prov. 11: 28 he that trusteth in his riches shall fail.
Prov. 28: 26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.
Isa. 2: 8 (2 Ne. 12: 8) they worship the work of their own hands.
Isa. 2: 22 (2 Ne. 12: 22) Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.
Isa. 30: 2 to trust in the shadow of Egypt.
Isa. 59: 4 they trust in vanity.
Jer. 17: 5 trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm.
Micah 7: 5 Trust ye not in a friend.
Rom. 8: 1 walk not after the flesh.
Philip. 3: 3 have no confidence in the flesh.
2 Ne. 4: 34 I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh.
2 Ne. 28: 31 Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man.
Mosiah 23: 14 trust no one to be your teacher . . . except . . . a man of God.
D&C 1: 19 neither trust in the arm of flesh.
D&C 3: 7 you should not have feared man more than God.
D&C 5: 21 yield to the persuasions of men no more.

The next time I'm concerned about the opinion of others, I'm going to think on these verses!

Measuring...

This scripture sure makes me want to be generous with others:

"Unto the day when the Lord shall come to recompense unto every man according to his work, and measure to every man according to the measure which he has measured to his fellow man" (Doctrine and Covenants 1:10, emphasis added).

So much of harshness in today's world. I often wonder why it hurts to give just a bit of kindness or "benefit of the doubt."

I know that when I'm driving down the freeway and someone cuts me off, kindness is the last sentiment I feel. :0) But this is my new emphasis for this year - to give kindness in all settings, not just when I feel like it. (And D&C 1:10 above ensures me it will be well worth it . . . even on the freeway. :0)