“Come Ye to the Waters and He That Hath No Money Come Buy and Eat”

D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner

Thirsty? Come to the waters of life. Hungry? Feast upon that which perisheth not. Here is a lesson in spiritual economics, which you can apply to your everyday life: do not spend your money, your labor, or your time for that which has no value, that which cannot satisfy. Examples could be Internet surfing, television watching, video gaming, chatting, blogging, and on and on, including many things that are not evil but could distract from the things that matter most. As John Bytheway wrote, “Satan works more by distraction than confrontation.” 26

“Let your soul delight in fatness”—that is, the Lord’s kind of fatness. He encourages the righteous to consume “a feast of fat things” (Isaiah 25:6; D&C 58:8), the fat things referring to the good things of the earth and of heaven.

Verse by Verse: The Book of Mormon: Vol. 1

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