2.118 Treasure These Things Up In Your Hearts

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 beginning of a monster week of reading.

But don't let that get you nervous. You got this. We can do this.

We have been on this pace for, what, 118 or so days this season. We can do this together. This week you're going to be reading Doctrine and Covenants sections 41 to 44, as well as Mosiah chapters 8 through 11.

And there are a lot of things happening across all of these different stories. Let's just touch on a couple of the main ones you're going to be looking at this week, and then take a look. And I'll be honest, today, a little bit out of order, I apologize, but it's still inside of our readings.

Okay. In Doctrine and Covenants sections 41 and 42, you're going to be introduced to the law. And a lot of things inside of 42 may be like, you may have questions and say like, "Hey, why do we do this as a church?" Or, "Where did this come from?" Well, in a lot of cases, it came from Doctrine and Covenants section 42.

So things are moving around. Now, our verse for today is a little bit out of order because I would encourage you to start at section 41 and read 41 and 42. The reason it's out of order is because I think it can put us in kind of a context, kind of a mindset, a frame of mind as we read Doctrine and Covenants section 42.

It is going to be found in Doctrine and Covenants section 43, verse 34. It's right at the end of section 43 here. This is what it says: "Treasure these things up in your hearts and let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds." Now, those two phrases are phrases that we could spend the next six months on.

Just those two phrases. "Treasure these things up in your hearts." What are the things you treasure up in your heart? What I mean by that, or what are the things that you're thinking about, even when you're not thinking about things? That's kind of the way that I see treasuring things up.

It's the things that are most important to you and they keep coming up in your mind, even when you're not thinking about things coming up in your mind, right? And then the second phrase, "let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds." There is a lot. That's a loaded statement inside of that one.

And what I thought with this verse this week to get started this week with it was, we're going to be reading the law in Doctrine and Covenants section 42. There's a lot inside of there. And there may even be things where you're like, "I don't even quite get where this is going." But this gives us a little framing here.

Treasure them up in your heart. Study them, ponder them. Think about them.

Think about what they mean for you. And then let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds. We'll be right back after this.

Maybe a single phrase, maybe a single verse. Some of these verses are single sentences in these readings this week. Let those solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds.

I think this statement here, these two side-by-side statements, is a wonderful opportunity for us to open the doors for inspiration from the Spirit of the Lord. And I wanted to share it at the start of this week so that we have a frame of mind rather than getting caught up in, "Did I read enough verses to get through this week?" Instead, to find that verse or that thought or that tiny little piece this week as you're reading that you could treasure up in your heart and continue to ponder on and let the Lord teach you what it is He wants you to know. That's all for today, my friends.

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