The Law of Consecration




A friend told me the following:


I was raised in the Church by good active parents and at 19 years old, I was called on a proselyting mission to Austria. I had only been out for a short time when I sustained a serious back injury while riding my bike. I was sent home immediately and the Doc said that I had been born with three back vertebrae not properly connected and this would require surgery. I was in the hospital for about one year, nine of those months with a body cast from my shoulders to my thighs.


Since then I have had eight other serious back surgeries, always telling myself that it would be my last. The pain from these and other related maladies has been very excruciating at times but God has always blessed me to survive them.


Not long ago I was diagnosed with prostate cancer but treatment put it into remission. My wife has a serious heart condition so she frequently relies on me for help. Sometimes, especially a night, my pain is so bad that I cannot sleep and will walk about trying to lessen the discomfort.


Through it all, I have been employed full time and served in many Church callings, always relying on God to support me by way of Priesthood blessings and obedience to His commands. People have asked me, especially when I was Bishop of the ward, why I would accept such time consuming responsibilities with my health challenges.


I remind them that in Holy Places we make sacred covenants under the Law of Consecration. We pledge our all and He promises to help us. I have been blessed many times, having complete faith that He will prepare a way to accomplish whatever He commands and that has sustained me through many rough spots.