Love and 60¢ Gasoline

AT WHAT PRICE LOVE?

I was listening to Elder Sonny Pyles' classic sermon Cause and Effect this morning. He pointed out that his “car works by gasoline” and that the biblical phrase "faith... worketh by love" (Galatians 5:6) has precisely the same meaning. Without love our faith has no fuel on which to run. He mentioned that his Ford car would not go very far on $0.60/gallon gas. One wonders what he would have thought about $4/gallon gas. It made me think, if the price of gas has risen sevenfold over the last several decades, how much has the price of love risen? It sure seems as if there's too little of it in our world. Perhaps it's become so expensive that we've been priced out of the market?

THE LORD HAS PAID THE PRICE

If that is the case, we should not despair.

"The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein." (Psalm 24:1)

Whatever the price of love, we know the Lord is sufficiently rich to pay it. What's more, our knowledge is not limited to God's mere potential for paying that price. The gospel declares not only that God is capable of paying the price of love for his people, but that he has done so, "for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified." (Hebrews 10:14). Indeed...

"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." (John 15:13)

"Jesus the savior is his name he freely loves and without end."

- Elder Daniel Samons