The daily sacrifice
In more than one scripture, we are challenged to “choose ye this day whom ye will serve.”1 You must renew your commitment to follow Jesus each day.2
Every moment of every day provides you with the opportunity to submit to the Lord’s purpose by prioritizing what is best for everyone and everything above all else. During the Israelites’ sojourn in the wilderness, the Lord explained that the tests that they faced even included how much manna they collected for food.3 Under the law of Moses, certain sacrifices were prescribed to be made on a daily and continual basis.4
You shouldn’t expect God to reveal his purpose to you in big things until and unless you consistently seek his purpose in the little things.5 Expecting God to use you in accomplishing his purpose in future tasks is folly unless you are seeking his purpose in the tasks before you in your present daily life.6 In both cases, you should learn that obtaining and effecting what lies beyond your present situation can only be reached by fulfilling the ideal in your present situation.7
Footnotes
- 1. See Moses 6:33, Joshua 24:15, and Alma 30:8 ↩
- 2. ...as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. (Romans 6:19) ↩
- 3. Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no. (Exodus 16:4) ↩
- 4. After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering. (Numbers 28:24) ↩
- 5. Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise. (Alma 37:6) ↩
- 6. Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. And out of small things proceedeth that which is great. (D&C 64:33) ↩
- 7. Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things. (D&C 123:15) ↩