Let Not Your Faith Be Lacking

1 Corinthians 2
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the ^apower of God.

Shouldn't we as children of God be willing to put trust and faith in the Lord?  He has all power to do all things, though they will not go the way we want them to we will be blessed and God will help us to survive this life if we trust Him.  But we do not blindly obey for nothing: whenever the Lord commands for obedience to some law, blessings always accompany them (D&C 130:20-21, D&C 132:5).  The following story outlines this principle:

'President Heber J. Grant tells of a different type of reward that comes from trusting in the Lord. When he was a young man, he heard his bishop in a fast meeting, which was then held on Thursdays (in the early days, we held our fast meetings on Thursdays), make a strong appeal for donations. At that time President Grant had $50 in his pocket which he intended to deposit in the bank. But he was so impressed by his bishop’s appeal that he tendered the whole $50 to the bishop. The bishop took $5 and handed him back $45, stating that $5 was his full share. Then President Grant replied, “Bishop Wooley, by what right do you rob me of putting the Lord in my debt? Didn’t you preach here today that the Lord rewards fourfold? My mother is a widow and she needs two hundred dollars.”

' “My boy,” queried the bishop, “do you believe that if I take this other forty-five dollars you will get your two hundred dollars quicker?”

' “Certainly,” replied President Grant.

'Now here was an expression of trust in the Lord which the bishop could not withstand. He took the remaining $45.

'President Grant testified that on his way back to work, “an idea popped” into his head, acting upon which he made $218.50. Speaking on this incident years later, he said, “Someone will say that it would have happened anyway.

' “I do not think it would have happened. I do not think I would have got the idea.

' “I am a firm believer that the Lord opens up the windows of heaven when we do our duty financially and pours out blessings upon us of a spiritual nature, which are of far greater value than temporal things. But I believe He also gives us blessings of a temporal nature.” (Improvement Era 42:457.)'

 (President Marion G. Romney, Trust in the Lord, G.C. Nov. 1977.)