Where Assets Commingle
General Conference retrospective
(The title is with apologies to Elder Holland, whose talk Where Justice, Love, and Mercy Meet is still the best talk for listening to on a Sunday while making dinner)
In marriage and business there is a concept called commingling of assets. At its fullest, the idea is that you have two nominally separate people or entities but they are so mixed up with each other that you can’t really sort out where one ends and the other begins. Legally the court will then throw up its hand and declare them to be one entity. Its not just that their assets now belong to both. For legal purposes, they are one entity.
In conference Elder Bednar talked about having your foundation built into the Rock of Ages, not just sitting on top of it. Sister Muñoz echoed Elder Uchtdorf making the same point.
The image is that you have sunk rebar down into the rock before you poured your concrete foundation around it, or excavated out a space for your foundation stone to rest in. Your foundation and the rock are now structurally one. If the Rock is unshaken, you are unshaken also.
A strong and reliable connection between the ground and a foundation is essential if a structure is to remain sturdy and stable over time. And for particular types of construction, anchor pins and steel rods can be used to attach the foundation of a building to “bedrock,” the hard, solid rock beneath surface materials such as soil and gravel.
Elder Bednar’s illustration
Switching metaphors, we might say that your assets have become indissolubly commingled with Jesus’. He has in Gethsemane and on the cross almost completely taken on your identity and your experience, right down to death. You take on his during the ordinances, by making all your concerns a matter of prayer (so He gets involved with them), and by taking on his roles in serving others. Eventually, its a real puzzle from the perspective of justice where you begin and Jesus leave off. You then are saved and exalted; you have to be. Mercy to you does not rob justice because justice cannot discern you from your Savior.
E.C.
April 23, 2024
. . . Which would explain the scripture in D&C where Christ says,
“Listen to him who is the advocate with the Father, who is pleading your cause before him—
“Saying: Father, behold the sufferings and death of him who did no sin, in whom thou wast well pleased; behold the blood of thy Son which was shed, the blood of him whom thou gavest that thyself might be glorified;
“Wherefore, Father, spare these my brethren that believe on my name, that they may come unto me and have everlasting life.”
Zen
April 23, 2024
Good, EC
I was thinking of the verses where Christ talks about Him being One with the Father, and us being One with Him.
Jacob G.
April 24, 2024
According to Jay McCarl part of the Galilean wedding was the ‘covenant of salt’. The brides family would bring salt and add it to the bowl of salt that the groom’s family had for the 7 day wedding celebration. This symbolized that through this marriage the families were being commingled irrevocably and undoing it would be as impossible as separating the salt that had been mixed.