Unprofitable Servants

“If ye should serve [God] with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants.”

I started thinking about this in terms of a business. When you hire an employee and pay him a salary, you are expecting to make a profit as a result. If you didn’t expect a profit from the employee, why would you add the expense of paying his salary?

This scripture is saying that God has paid us infinitely through the Atonement of Jesus Christ – and none of our finite efforts can make us profitable.

This doesn’t mean it’s not worth it to the Lord to pay us all this spiritual wealth. It just means that if it were not for His Sacrifice, we would all be poor – none would return to live with God.