At Christmas time, whom do you worship?
Zechariah 11:12-13a; “And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver. 13 And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.”
Matthew 26:14-15; “Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, 15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.”
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Betrayed for thirty pieces of silver … Who’s betraying whom?
In the ‘Christmas season’ whom do you worship? Is it the stores that offer fixed bargains, the decorations we all burden ourselves with, or how about all the recitals, concerts, ballets and plays we cram into our to-do-lists as festivities pile themselves on our calendars?
How much would you offer the Shepherd at the end of His work? If the thanks and adorations are being spent on anyone but God we have a major problem.
Pray for the Mormon people to discern where their adoration should be directed and that they’d reject the folly of what their leaders remind them to do.
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Ensign, December 1997; “This is a season for giving and a time for gratitude. We remember with appreciation the birth of the Prophet Joseph Smith, which is celebrated this same month of December, two days before Christmas…We stand in reverence before him. He is the great prophet of this dispensation. He stands at the head of this great and mighty work which is spreading across the earth. He is our prophet, our revelator, our seer, our friend. Let us not forget him. Let not his memory be forgotten in the celebration of Christmas. God be thanked for the Prophet Joseph.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
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