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It wasn’t a typical Tuesday devotional. At 11:05 a.m. on September 11, 2001 — just hours after terrorists intentionally crashed planes into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon — Merrill J. Bateman, BYU’s president at the time, stood to address the student body. The title of his talk: “Hope for Peace.” “The world’s peace is on your shoulders because you have the only message that gives hope for eternal peace,” he said. SNIP Elder Bateman told BYU students they had the responsibility to lead the world to righteousness. “The world depends on you,” he said. Over the past...

The note for today is: "Find time today and everyday to rest in the Lord." This chapter talks about two kinds of rest: God's rest and the rest he insists that his faithful followers take part in. So what is God's rest? God rested after he created the world. And then, when he had completed all things necessary for a smooth running of the world which he handed over to Adam, administratively, God rested on the seventh day. But in verse 3 there were differences in this command to rest: Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as...

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