Our Will

A picture my Husband took while he was at InterContinental Carlton Cannes

I really like this quote I read by Elder Neal A. Maxwell of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles:

“The submission of one’s will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God’s altar. It is a hard doctrine, but it is true. The many other things we give to God, however nice that may be of us, are actually things He has already given us, and He has loaned them to us. But when we begin to submit ourselves by letting our wills be swallowed up in God’s will, then we are really giving something to Him” (“Insights from my Life,” Ensign, Aug. 200,9).

I do realize that things like tithing, are things we give back to the Lord what He has already given us. It never occurred to be that the only thing we can give Him that he didn’t already give to us, is our own will. It certainly isn’t an easy thing to do. I am really selfish and have a long ways to go.