Mosiah 2:21 “I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from on e moment to another – I say, if ye should serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants.”
I am of the dust of the earth. He created the earth. He used the earth to create my body, and it belongs to him, for the debt is unpaid. He has placed in me my spirit, given me my mind to think, my body to do, my heart to feel. He has delivered me from the hands of my enemies and I sing to Him redeeming love. I know there is nothing I could do to repay Him, for He blesses me abundantly every time I keep a law. He is the giver of life, the bread and the water, the sunshine and the soil. My roots are sunk deep in His bedrock of truth because He hath loved me and brought me to see His marvelous light. All that I have is not my own. All that I do to serve Him I do not so to repay Him, but to Honor Him. I want to bring Him glory because I love Him, but He hath loved me first. My life was in torment because I knew not Him love because I would not believe. I was a victim in the prison I built for myself while licking my own wounds. He has turned my heart and brought me out of the pit of my self-pity. Where I once thought only of myself, I now seek to meet the needs of others. Where there once was despair and loneliness, there is now hope and gratitude. It is true, I am an unprofitable servant. But being in such a position allows me to feel the joy of being in His debt; to feel a deep sense of gratitude; to want to work all my days to repay Him and serve Him. It is my honor and privilege to serve Him, no matter how other men may receive my gift. I do it not for man, but for God. I care not to receive the Honors of men for in the end they will laugh and mock whom they once put in the lime light. I care not for riches for they are only needed to bring about the purposes of God as they are a means to an end. My life is to glorify God. My joy is to serve Him. My prayer is that I may be filled with His love that I may give it to others and draw them to the Savoir. I want them to feel the joy I feel in knowing the goodness of God. I want them to see the mysteries of heaven open for them that they may see the marvelous light. I want them to know God that they may know they way to happiness.
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