This week, we talked about the miracles of feeding the 5000 and the 4000. In doing so, we talked about how God can magnify our sacrifices and leave us with more than we had when we started. However, I'm not sure how this is possible. I know that God can give us more energy and alter the physical characteristics of the world, but it's hard to imagine God repaying a sacrifice of time. God's miracles can repay any physical sacrifice, but they're not going to turn back the clock.
However, I've realized that I'm thinking about this on the wrong timescale. God doesn't always reward people right away. Sometimes, the ultimate rewards don't come until the afterlife, and one thing we already know about th afterlife is that, at that point, we'll be immortal. Mortal life is short; we only have so much time in mortality, but we will have an infinite amount of time hereafter, whether we make any sacrifices of time or not.
So, yes, right now, our time is precious, but in the eternal scheme of things, this Earthly life is only a very short amount of time compared to the amount of time we're going to be given. A sacrifice of a few hours, or even several hours, isn't all that long in comparison with the time God had already given us and will yet give us. Giving God and the needy our time does require a sacrifice, but it's a sacrifice of a resource of which we will someday have an infinite supply.
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