JohnsonJones Posted March 2 Report Posted March 2 So, looking over the Come Follow Me for next week I had a thought (probably very heavily inspired by the Come Follow Me Lesson). I absolutely love my books. I have what some would consider a rather large library. It consist of over 10,000 books. It is perhaps one of my most treasured things. It is worthless. I dream that when I die, I will be given a large room of books to spend eternity with, but that's as vain a thought as the Pharoahs who tried to bring their treasures with them. It can be a hard thing to put the lord above all other things, including things that you love in this life. Part of putting the Lord first for me, I think it to realize that it's truly just the Lord and what he wants that is important. If it is needful for me to read in the next life, it will be because it's part of the Lord's plan for me, not because of my own selfish desires to simply sit back and read for eternity. I think when I read about Martin Harris's sacrifice, that it could not have been easy for him to do. He ended up losing a lot of property and money. According to this site inflation calculator He would have lost over 100,000 ($101,134.02 as calculated to the end of 2024) in today's spending money. How much are we willing to give for the Kingdom of the Lord. We should be willing to sacrifice all we have (which, in truth, as this life is a temporary probation, is actually nothing at all since we don't get to keep any of it anyways). It's getting into that mindset that can be hard though. SilentOne, mordorbund, Jamie123 and 1 other 4 Quote
Jamie123 Posted Tuesday at 01:18 PM Report Posted Tuesday at 01:18 PM On 3/2/2025 at 8:34 PM, JohnsonJones said: It can be a hard thing to put the lord above all other things, including things that you love in this life. Quote "And if there is some harm in laying earthly hope at heaven’s door, Or in this saying so, Have mercy on my foolishness, dear Lord, I love this world you made – it’s all I know." https://daggionline.blogspot.com/2005/10/when-im-in-heaven.html?m=1 zil2 and SilentOne 2 Quote
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