What is it Worth?

Tiffany and I purchased a new bedroom set recently and decided to sell our old set.

Here is the old set:

To figure out what it was worth I needed to estimate the value other people might place on it. I came up with $850. Within 3 hours I had sold it for $700.

Here’s the cash I received for the furniture:

Joel, the fellow that bought the furniture, wanted it for a guest room in his house. Just he and his wife live in a 4-bedroom house and his son comes to stay occasionally and this furniture will be available for him.

The worth Joel assigned to the furniture was based on the importance of the problem it solved for him.

You have a problem. I have the same problem. We sin and are therefore impure and are unable to return to God unless we are cleansed from our sins.

There is only one solution to this problem and it’s the Atonement of Jesus Christ.

What is that worth to you?

Nephi instructed, in fact commanded, that his descendents “shall not occupy these plates with things which are not of worth unto the children of men.”

What is contained in the Book of Mormon is in fact of great worth to all of us specifically because it persuades us to accept the atonement and be saved.

As Nephi said, “For the fulness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved.”

Again, what is that worth to you?

- 1 Nephi 6:4,6