Based on Luke, Chapter 12
Jesus was encircled by the multitude, diligently teaching.
He wanted His followers to know what is most valuable for their mortal mission.
Even as He stood before them trying to help them understand spiritual things,
some only focused on what they could gain from temporal blessings.
Here is what one disciple discerned from the Savior’s message,
written down to enhance his understanding and knowledge:
The children of God are treasured by Him more than anything else.
Of all God’s creations, His offspring matter the most.
Because we are the object of his devoted benevolence,
He will provide all that we need in order to live on this beautiful planet.
What is the key to having all that we need to prosper?
“Seek ye first the kingdom of God” was the advice that Jesus fervently offered.
When our desire for wealth becomes an obsession,
we may covet everything as if it should be ‘our’ possession.
Covetousness and greed are easy to find in this current season,
just as it was in the time of Christ and His generation.
A man’s life is not about what he can gather unto himself,
but consists of what he can give away from the things stored on his shelf.
This same Jesus instructed us that “it is better to give than receive”.
Should we not therefore give a destitute brother that which he may need? (Acts 20:35)
How do we lay up treasure in heaven, rather than on earth?
Would it be to give to others rather than amass things of little eternal worth?
For where our treasure is, there also our heart resides.
What we consider the most important is not easy to hide.
Seeking and doing God’s will and bidding
is more important than what we do to make a comfortable living.
The most important things that we should treasure and give our time to
are family and friends and our devotion to God that we should eagerly pursue.
December 2022
Luke 12: 15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Acts 20: 35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Mosiah 4: 21 And now, if God, who has created you, on whom you are dependent for your lives and for all that ye have and are, doth grant unto you whatsoever ye ask that is right, in faith, believing that ye shall receive, O then, how ye ought to impart of the substance that ye have one to another.
Mosiah 4:26 ...I would that ye should impart of your substance to the poor, every man according to that which he hath, such as feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and administering to their relief, both spiritually and temporally, according to their wants.
Dallin H. Oaks, “Good, Better, Best, October 2007
“Some of our most important choices concern family activities. Many breadwinners worry that their occupations leave too little time for their families. There is no easy formula for that contest of priorities. However, I have never known of a man who looked back on his working life and said, “I just didn’t spend enough time with my job.” President Gordon B. Hinckley has pleaded that we “work at our responsibility as parents as if everything
in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.”
The First Presidency has called on parents “to devote their best efforts to the teaching and rearing of their children in gospel principles. … The home is the basis of a righteous life, and no other instrumentality can take its place … in … this God-given responsibility.” The First Presidency has declared that “however worthy and appropriate other demands or activities may be, they must not be permitted to displace the divinely-appointed
duties that only parents and families can adequately perform.”
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