ROI

ROI: Are we telling God it is not worth a His time? Christ may just be the least efficient entrepreneur. As He will invest everything He has for only one person if that was all that would come to heaven with Him. Let us not diminish the sacrifice of God by our standard of return on investment.

“I felt discouraged at the amount of work before me, and stated that I had been engaged in cutting garments for others for more than twenty years, and my labors had not been appreciated, neither did I see that my work had accomplished much good. ... I stated that [they] would not prize the garment, and that it would be a loss of time...

The [messenger] replied: “Cut out the garments. That is your duty. The loss is not yours, but mine. God sees not as man sees. He lays out the work that He would have done, and you do not know which will prosper, this or that. It will be found that many such poor souls will go into the kingdom, while others, who are favored with all the blessings of life, having good intellects and pleasant surroundings, giving them all the advantages of improvement, will be left out. It will be seen that these poor souls have lived up to the feeble light which they had, and have improved by the limited means within their reach, and lived much more acceptably than some others who have enjoyed full light and ample means for improvement.”

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With feelings of great weariness I arose to engage in the work. Before me lay new, polished shears, which I commenced using. At once my feelings of weariness and discouragement left me; the shears seemed to cut with hardly an effort on my part, and I cut out garment after garment with comparative ease. “

Testimonies for the Church 2: 10.2-11.4