O Ye Fair Ones

I try to listen to my scriptures every morning.  No matter how many times I've heard it, something always seems to jump out at me or I hear something that I don't remember hearing before.

The Book of Mormon is an amazing book.  I marvel at how relevant it is for us in our day.  Even more so as the world becomes increasingly wicked.  If you listen to the arguments of apostates, they basically quote verbatim what the apostates in The Book of Mormon said.  Some things never change I suppose.  Satan's arguments and deceptions worked back then and work now.  Don't fix what ain't broke right? I guess that's Satan's philosophy.  Human behavior is very predictable.  But that's another blog post.  :-)

Anyway I'll post my two cents another day, my intention today was just to post a scripture that jumped out at me the other day. Here it is:

Mormon 6:17-22

 17 O ye fair ones, how could ye have departed from the ways of the Lord! O ye fair ones, how could ye have rejected that Jesus, who stood with open arms to receive you!

 18 Behold, if ye had not done this, ye would not have fallen. But behold, ye are fallen, and I mourn your loss.

 19 O ye fair sons and daughters, ye fathers and mothers, ye husbands and wives, ye fair ones, how is it that ye could have fallen!

 20 But behold, ye are gone, and my sorrows cannot bring your return.

 21 And the day soon cometh that your mortal must put on immortality, and these bodies which are now moldering in corruption must soon become incorruptible bodies; and then ye must stand before the judgment-seat of Christ, to be judged according to your works; and if it so be that ye are righteous, then are ye blessed with your fathers who have gone before you.

 22 O that ye had repented before this great destruction had come upon you. But behold, ye are gone, and the Father, yea, the Eternal Father of heaven, knoweth your state; and he doeth with you according to his justice and mercy.