Keep Your Financial Promises and Live

When we take on financial obligations like borrowing a dollar from a friend, borrowing $1,000 from a credit card company, or borrowing $100,000 from a bank for our mortgage, is that a serious obligation?

If we aren't willing to do everything in our power to keep the promise of payment we shouldn't enter into the agreement in the first place. But once entered we must do everything in our power to stay true to the obligation -- it could be the difference between life and death.

Limhi and his people made an agreement with the Lamanite king to pay 50% each year of everything they had in exchange for keeping their land and a few other terms.

"...the Lamanites had granted unto them that they might possess the land by paying a tribute to the Lamanites of one half of all they possessed".

This worked for two years until the Lamanites came and attacked Limhi's people. In the battle, the Lamanite king was wounded and brough to Limhi.

Limhi asked, "What cause have ye to come up to war against my people? Behold, my people have not broken the oath that I made unto you; therefore, why should ye break the oath which ye made unto my people?"

Since Limhi and his people had kept their financial obligation, the Lamanite king trusted them and his heart was softened. He went to his people, who were preparing to come attack and destroy Limhi's people, and convinced them not to do it.

Limhi's people were literally saved from death because they had kept their financial promise.

- Mosiah 19:15, 22; Mosiah 20:14