The Responsibility for Having Oil in Our Personal Lamps
is an Individual Requirement and Opportunity.
Elder Marvin J. Ashton
"The oil of spiritual preparedness cannot be shared. The wise were not unkind or selfish when they refused oil to the foolish in the moment of truth. The kind of oil needed by all of us to light up the darkness and illuminate the way is not shareable. The oil could have been purchased at the market in the parable, but in our lives it is accumulated by righteous living, a drop at a time.
How can one share the blessings that come through visiting the sick?
How can one share in the blessings that come from assisting the widow or the fatherless?
How can one share a personal testimony?
How can one share the blessings of conference attendance?
How can one share the lesson of obedience learned in living the principle of tithing?
Certainly each must accumulate this kind of oil for [her]self. Let us not procrastinate. Midnight is so far and yet so close to those who have procrastinated.
'But behold, your days of probation are past; ye have procrastinated the day of your salvation until it is everlastingly too late, and your destruction is made sure. …' (Helaman 13:38)
There is an urgency in this day for us to prepare for the coming of the Lord. For you who have heeded the warning and continue in your preparations to accumulate the oil of righteousness in your lamps, great blessings are yours.
...Your lamp too can runneth over with spiritual fuel if you will but let it accumulate day by day, drop by drop, in righteous service to God and man."
Merry CHRISTmas!
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