An Idea on the Law of Consecration

This is kind of a random thought, but that is the way my mind works. Stick around me long enough and you will know the definition of randomness. Anyhow, I was just sitting here in bed and I have had an idea I have been trying to put into words or at least mental thought, and I figured why not just write it and put it into written thought, and I thought, what a great idea!

Well my idea revolves around the Law of Consecration which is the law which we will voluntarily live by when we are allowed to live in Zion. Anyhow my idea is in trying to explain in a general sense what this law is about. If I had to explain it to anyone, I would have to say it this way with a question. What do we work for when we go to work where we get paid. Are we working for the prestige of the money or are we working for the things we can purchase with that money? To clarify this, are we working so we can go on vacations with our families, pay for gas to go on those vacations, and to have the other needs of life or are we working so we can show off those things and be better than others. If you have to narrow it down, are we working for the money itself or for the services that come from that money?

If we are working for the money in itself, we could never be satisfied with how much we get because when can you say enough is enough or I have enough? When could we finally say, I am happy? If you are working for the services that that money provides, you come to find a sense of accomplishment in that money being spent on a means to an end rather than the end in itself.

Now how does this relate to the Law of Consecration? Well consider for a second that you made a substantial amount of money; Not millions, but you definitely had plenty of money to buy the things you wanted and needed. How would you feel if everyone else was able to enjoy those same things that you were able to enjoy? Would you feel less successful if everyone else was able to have the same things you had even though they maybe had less education or other qualifying factors than you had? In other words, what would that money mean to you? would it be as a means of lifting yourself up above others so that others could see your status was above their status and you had more "things" than they did? Or on the other hand would you feel a great feeling in your heart that everyone was able to partake of the same blessings as you?

As you apply this to the Law of Consecration, an individual person may do very well under the law as he adds increase to his stewardship that has been entrusted to him. The blessed thing in this is that as he does well, so can everyone else. In today's world we are told that if one class is to live a life of luxury, then it must needs come at the expense of another class. This is not the way a loving Heavenly Father wants it for his children. We are all blessed with different talents and abilities and some are better at things as business than others, and some are better at taking care of the sick and the afflicted than others. We all have our unique talents and skills. Their is more than enough abundance for all to enjoy every blessing that Heavenly Father has in reserve for us on this earth, but to get to that point we must get beyond the status of money and get to the services of money. Once we come to the understanding that money is only a means to an end, we will be closer the day when we can all enjoy the blessings of this earth. For although we may be Doctors or Lawyers and have great prestige and many of the things of this world, it matters very little if these "things" are only so we can put a label upon ourselves and put ourselves on a higher level than others.

When we are blessed to live the Law of Consecration, money will no longer be about prestige, rather about service. In a sense, that is all money boils down to anyhow is service from one to another. When we are all able to think of others as we do ourselves, NOT BY FORCE BUT BY CHOICE, this will be when we are ready to live the Law of Consecration and when all will begin to enjoy the blessings of our Heavenly Father in abundance both temporally and spiritually!