Sacrifice

I have been reading the bible lately and I was reading in Exodus when the children of Israel were working on the Tabernacle. They were asked to donate their gold and silver and jewels and material and wood. The cloth had to be spun. So the women spun cloth. Eventually the men blessed with wisdom to do the building of the Tabernacle came to Moses and told him that they had too much. So Moses gave commandment, "Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary.... The stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much." Exodus 36:6-7. I was impressed with the generosity of the children of Israel and their willingness to sacrifice and help. And then I started thinking of the things which we are asked to do and how we are asked to sacrifice and wouldn't it be so wonderful if at the end of our earthly lives we could be told it is sufficient. Like Enos, to be told "Come unto me ye blessed there is a place prepared for you in the mansions of My Father. Enos 1:27.
Also when I think about the things we are commanded to do I have a hard time considering it a sacrifice. We are blessed with so much as we strive to do what is right and repent when we fall short it is hard to consider it sacrificing. King Benjamin puts it well when he talks of our debt to Heavenly Father in Mosiah 2:21-25. We are indebted to Him for our very lives and then when we keep His commandments He blesses us and we are still indebted to Him forever. And the only way it is possible for our sacrifices to be considered sufficient is because of our debt being paid by the greatest sacrifice of all, that of our Brother, and Savior Jesus Christ. We all fall short without His sacrifice, but because of His great love for us and His atoning for our sins, our meager sacrifices can be enough. I am so grateful for my Savior and all He has done for me. In the name of Jesus Christ amen.