Zion and the Law of Consecration

[james12]

Unfortunately we are still not ready for the Law of Consecration which is fully lived through the United Order. It is hard to condemn the early saints when we are still so attached to what is "ours". Brigham Young once said, "Elders are agreed on the way and manner necessary to obtain celestial glory, but they quarrel about a dollar. When principles of eternal life are brought before them—God and the things pertaining to God and godliness—they apparently care not half so much about them as they do about five cents" (J of D 9:249).

I don't believe the Lord sees the things we own the same way we do. He says, "And again, I command thee that thou shalt not covet thine own property" (D&C 19:26). And again, "Let them repent of all their sins, and of all their covetous desires, before me, saith the Lord; for what is property unto me? saith the Lord" (D&C 117:4).

It has been 180 years but the living of this law in many ways is almost as distant as when the Lord first withdrew it.

[Netgood]

When you pay tithing and then have to go in to ask for the same money back in food assistance that brings you closer to the law of consecration.