The Parable of Fast Food
I have noticed something about
myself. I go through phases where I
don’t eat any fast food for a long time and then I don’t have time one day and
so I’ll go through a drive through. This
makes me once again realize how convenient it is to have someone do the work of
preparing food for me, and I waste a lot of money buying things to eat that I
could have made for less at home. It’s
so much cheaper to buy the ingredients and make the meals yourself, but it is
time consuming and sometimes labor intensive.
This can be related to life in
this way: we can choose to do things for
ourselves and work hard but reap the reward of less money taken, or we can
always shirk our responsibility and have others do our work for us. This is the more costly option of the
two. Not only do we rob ourselves of
much needed work and learning, we create a burden upon others and take away
from our spiritual bank. Heavenly Father
has taught us that He expects us to do all that we can and then Christ will
make up for the rest. How scary is it to
think that if we do not do ALL that we can, we have robbed ourselves and
burdened someone else along the way!
I sincerely hope that we learn
to do things for ourselves when we are young so that instead of creating a
burden on those around us, we will be able to give ourselves to the important
work Heavenly Father has given us to do here on earth. If we do so, I know that our spiritual banks
will be full for our time on earth and for our life to come!
Related
scriptures: Genesis 3:19, Moses
4:25, 2 Chronicles 15:7, Proverbs 6:6, Proverbs 10:16, Proverbs 14:23, Proverbs
20:11, Ecclesiastes 5:12, Matthew 25:15, Romans 2:10, 1 Thessalonians 2:9, 1
Thessalonians 4:11, 2 Nephi 5:17, 2 Nephi 9:51, Jacob 1:19, Mosiah 2:14, Mosiah
10:5, Mosiah 23:5, Mosiah 27:5, Alma 10:4, Alma 36:25, D&C 42:42, D&C
58:27, D&C 68:30, D&C 72:17, D&C 82:18.
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