“Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance.” II Peter 1:12-13 Bill & Gloria Gaither sing a song entitled “Some Things I Must Tell the Children.” In it they talk about so many everyday things that we teach our children, reminding them over and over of how they should act and speak. It expresses how we must do this but…
“And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil. Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.” Deuteronomy 33:24-25. In Chapter 33 of Deuteronomy, Moses is pronouncing blessings upon each of the tribes of Israel. After leading them for many years, he is now about to be taken away from them. He makes predictions and promises about what awaits them in the future. I like the last phrase of his prophecy to Asher: “As thy…
“That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:” Psalm 144:13. I like to read pioneer stores. In most of them there are references to the way the women prepared for winter by filling their root cellars or storage rooms with food. Everything that was harvested from their gardens or from the fields and woods around them was canned, dried, or preserved in some way for them to have food for the long winter months. When winter came, they were prepared. Each day, they could…