Service, a Divine Inheritance – March 17, 2002
How often do we catch ourselves using the same phrases we heard our parents use as we grew up? “A man’s word is his bond,” “Haste makes waste,” or “If a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing right.”
We also mirror our parents’ ways—from little mannerisms like whistling as we work, to the habit of helping others. We copy our parents’ actions without even realizing it. From their examples, we learn how to perform acts of kindness, how to get along with people, how to serve our community.
It’s almost as if we’ve inherited our tendencies to seek goodness and to do good. And perhaps these godly traits are really passed on to us by the Father of our spirits, our Father in Heaven.
When we answer the impulse to help someone, or share our means with those in need, we feel a somehow familiar glow, as if we’re responding to a divine instinct. When we serve others, we’re following an inborn inheritance of the divine. We’re sharing love, which lifts us and makes us a little more like our Heavenly Father.
When we respond to our divine inherited prompting to care for one another, we exemplify the charity learned not only in our homes on earth, but also from our home on high.
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