Entry 3 Make a Living and a Life

    

          This week the talk by Elder Lynn G Robbins "Make a living and a life" keeps coming to my mind. He shared many things that resonated with me and impressed my mind. I liked the how he spent quite about of time talking about motives and what drive us, of this he said; "The motives that drive people are the hinges upon which major outcomes swing." He then went on to talk about how we can either serve God or Mammon, while making money is not a bad thing the most important factor is where our hearts are and what they are centered on. Do we love God or money more?

Elder Robbins goes on to break down the different motivations into primary and secondary motivations and then gives them grades descending with “Grade A” being a love of God and fellowmen as the primary motivation and Income as the secondary motivation. I will focus primarily on Grade A. Jacob 2:18-19 illustrates this well; “Before you seek for riches, seek the kingdom of God. And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good.”

By using your riches to do good you will continually seek for the will of God in your life and seek the spirit to know how to help and aid others as Elder Robbins said, “Those at the A-level aren't working for mankind, but living for mankind, trying to lift and help others.  In addition to making a living, they are making a life.” I love how he says that those who understand this are living for mankind, with the motivation to lift and help. Those whose influence I most want to emulate in history all understood this from the Savior, to Mother Teresa, and many others they saw all that they were and had to be a gift of God that they were expected to use to lift, serve, and help others and this gave their lives meaning. That is the kind of life I want to live.

 

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