CONSECRATION – Consecration begins with the offering
of a broken heart and a contrite spirit.
It is not the equivalent of being
religious. The people who killed Jesus
and those who bombed the World Trade Center on 9/11 were religious to a fanatical
degree. The consecrated person will
serve the Lord, the church, and/or his fellowmen at the earliest
inconvenience. Tithing is a baby step in
the direction of consecration.
A truly consecrated person has learned to orient all that he/she does in the direction of contributing to the glory of God. "And if it be that your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things." (D&C 88:67)
How can anyone in his rightmind resist an offer like that?
TITHING - A Pleiades Trilogy
Ten percent of our increase is
The
Tithe
That God requests.
This is to the
True Christian, a fundamental
Test.
The money is not the real
issue. He could grow money on
Trees, or the
Treasures of gold in the earth
He could
Take at His ease. To
Tithe is to show Him that we do
believe; that we
Trust Him to open the Window of
Heaven and give more
Than we can receive, or
conceive.
“This is my promise.
Test me herewith." He says: "Test my power
To love and to bless.” And
Those who have
Tithed under financial stress
are
They who bear witness to God’s
True largesse!
(c) Robert Lynn Brown
How can anyone in his rightmind resist an offer like that?
CONSECRATION
The Lord would have
me pledge
to Him, with
willing heart,
my talents and my
time, my life,
and all my means
impart;
should all of
this--or any part--
be called for to
support His Plan
for the rescue and
redemption
of the race of
fallen man.
He seldom asks more
than a tenth
of what we covenant
to Him
to build his
Kingdom here on earth;
yet He reserves his
title to my life and limb.
And though I render
all of this,
And more, >tis but a start.
For these are merely stepping stones
toward the throne where I will offer up
... my broken heart!
(C) Robert Lynn Browm
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