Meridian Magazine :: Family Home Evening: God’s Money Laws

Meridian Magazine :: Family Home Evening: God’s Money Laws

Tithing—a Commandment Even for the Destitute

"...the truer measure of sacrifice isn’t so much what one gives to sacrifice as what one sacrifices to give. Faith isn’t tested so much when the cupboard is full as when it is bare. In these defining moments, the crisis doesn’t create one’s character—it reveals it."
--Lynn G. Robbins, “Tithing—a Commandment Even for the Destitute,” Ensign, May 2005, 34

So Grateful

This was a great day - and although I am not fasting (breastfeeding still), I really feel like my testimony grew today. I am so grateful for the opportunity to go to church, and for our church to be so close by. I am so grateful for the opportunity to take the sacrament and renew my baptismal covenants, and start a new week with a new perspective and goal in mind to do better. I am grateful for our Gospel Principles teacher, for the spirit he radiates to us as he teaches about the basic principles of the gospel. I am grateful for the lesson we had today on free agency (I will touch more on this later). I am grateful for the film I was able to see, from the hallway into the Relief Society room while I bounced Kelton, on the marvelous humanitarian services that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day saints provide worldwide. And I am grateful for the opportunity to be a part of the humanitarian efforts currently. I am grateful for tithing, for fast offerings, and for the blessings it provides us when we are faithful in paying to the Lord. I am grateful to know that all the tithing we pay in our church goes to the building up of many lives throughout the world, spiritually, mentally, and physically - and in all capacities of life. What a great blessing that it is to everyone, whether you're LDS or not, what a wonderful, overwhelming, joyous moment that is.