The Lord's Chips

Nacho Libre

Set in a small Mexican town, Nacho Libre is the story of a young cook for a monastery trying to do his best to feed all the orphans a decent meal on a limited budget. This cook, Ignacio, always dreamed of becoming a luchador, but wrestling was forbidden by the monastery. One day while picking up the food for the monastery Ignacio is attacked by a thief who steals the chips. Later Ignacio, under a secret-identity known as "Nacho", teams up with this tortilla thief in order to enter a local wrestling competition to make money to buy enough food to feed the orphans.

At one point in the story we learn an important gospel truth. After being humiliated by the tortilla theif and losing the chips, Ignacio shamefully returns to the monastery empty-handed. One of the monks, in a thick accent, asks:



"Did you not tell him they were the Lord's cheeps?"

In the Old Testament through the prophet Malachi, the Lord chastises his people for continually straying away from Him. In chapter 3 the Lord asks the people to return to Him and gives this scripture through his prophet:

8   Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 
9   Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robebd me, even this whole nation.
10   Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing. that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11   And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.

The Lord has revealed more scriptures in these Latter-Days, through the prophet Joseph Smith, the Lord stated:

"And in nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his 
hand in all things, and obey not his commandments."

These scriptrues apply not only to tithing of materials the Lord has given us on Earth, but also of the gifts and abilities the Lord has given us! What gifts and abilities, or "chips", has the Lord given us that we can use for the benefit of others? Let's acknowledge and thank the Lord for the gifts he's given us! These abilities did not come from ourselves, but they are "the Lord's cheeps". By acknowleding the Lord and giving thanks to Him for the blessings He has already given us in our lives opens the windows of Heaven to receive even more from Him!

Here's a challenge for you.

Think of a gift or talent you have

that you can use to help others this upcoming week. 

Then DO IT.