And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit. And whoso cometh unto me with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, him will I baptize with fire and with the Holy Ghost, even as the Lamanites, because of their faith in me at the time of their conversion, were baptized with fire and with the Holy Ghost, and they knew it not.
By offering a broken heart and a contrite spirit, we sacrifice our pride and our will. We give them to God. We burn them on the altar of repentance and covenants. We show the Lord that what he wants is more important to us than what we want. Our agency is the one possession that is truly ours, the one thing God will not take from us involuntarily, and therefore the one thing we can give him that is a genuine sacrifice.
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