Why Do We Serve?

John W. Welch

It is by serving that we come to know the master whom we have served. That is the purpose of serving. It is not to try to repay him, for we can never get out of his debt (Mosiah 2:21). It is actually not so much about serving our fellow beings, for "when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only [merely, exclusively] in the service of your God" (2:17, see Figure 7). We serve the Master, and by so doing we get to know Him. We hear and know His Voice. Service, first and foremost, is all about building a relationship with Him, so that we can know and do his will in serving others, and so that he can then exalt us and seal us to be bound together in righteousness.

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