2.90 There is Always Room

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus calls us the salt of the earth, a bold reminder that our lives are meant to carry his flavor, his truth, and his love to the world. Join me each day to explore one verse of scripture and one thought, striving to stay full of savor and truly live as savory salt. Hello, my friends.

Great to have you with me. Today, let's be anxiously engaged in a good cause and bring to pass much righteousness. Welcome to the new week ahead.

We are diving 90 days into the year here, and we're going to be focusing on a very doctrinally heavy reading inside of Doctrine and Covenants, even though it's only one section, Doctrine and Covenants section 29. Digital resources inside of Come Follow Me for Doctrine and Covenants 29, loaded with awesome videos. Quorum of the Twelve Apostles members speak inside their homes and have some videos that are done that explain some of these doctrinal topics.

So, please be aware of Come Follow Me and use it inside of your reading this week. As we dive into this, our verse for today is going to come right off the beginning of Doctrine and Covenants 29, verse 2. And this is right after verse 1.

Jesus Christ introduces himself inside of this revelation. This is September of 1830. The church is brand new, still getting off the ground, still trying to figure things out.

These are answers to questions that the Saints have been having. Christ comes himself to answer these questions. So he introduces himself in verse 1.

And in verse 2 he says this, Who will gather my people, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, even as many as will hearken to my voice and humble themselves before me, and call upon me in mighty prayer. I love this one. I think I did one of these last year out of the Isaiah chapters with this reference to a hen gathering her chickens under her wings.

I'm going to take it a little bit different from how I did last year. But I love that this is open to as many as will hearken. And you think, you know, a hen only has so much space under her wings so she could only cover so many chicks, right?

And yet the Lord is saying, no, I'm going to do this. The symbol is this hen with her wings covering her chickens, but it's going to work for as many as will hearken to my voice and humble themselves before me. There's room.

There's room for you. There's room for me. There's room for all of us.

With the Lord, there is always room to come under his wing. And I think for me, I thought about this through a little bit different lens. There's a great example of this, although I'll admit, parents, this is a heavy subject, but there's a movie years ago that was made about the genocide in Rwanda from the mid-nineties.

The movie is called "Hotel Rwanda". It stars Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina. And Paul Rusesabagina was a man during the genocide in Rwanda who was managing a hotel and saved over a thousand lives of people that were trying to protect themselves from the genocide that was occurring.

And to fast forward to the end of the movie here, sorry to give a spoiler alert, but I figure if the movie's 20-plus years old, then there are no spoilers. But he says a line that really gets emotional for me as they're finishing up the movie. The last line of the movie, he says, "There is always room." For him, it was a way of life.

It was a concept of living. And people, you know, asked him about how in the world he could save so many people and how did he always just keep saying yes to people that were turning to him in need. And he just explained that there's always room.

My friends, when it comes to Jesus Christ and his power to save, there is always room. There's room, whatever you may have done, whatever mistakes you may have made, however far you've come, there's always room. And I love that symbolism from Jesus Christ.

He is truly a savior without limits. And I hope that I will be considered one of those that will hearken to his voice and humble myself and call upon him in mighty prayer. And I hope you do so as well.

That's all for today, my friends. Lift up your hearts and rejoice. Cleave to the covenants you have made and together we will be savory salt.