Do We Live the Law of Consecration Today?
The answer to this question must be answered by each individual separately. Many people would say that the answer to this question is 'no'. I will present here how those people are correct and how they may be incorrect. Let me start with some of my research of the sacrament prayers. In the prayer on the bread it states that we witness that we are "willing" to do three things. Those three things are the same or very similar to the things that we commit to at baptism. The point is that it states that we are willing to do those three things. We are not witnessing that we "do" those things. However, in the prayer on the water it states that we witness that we "do" one thing, namely, always remember Christ. There is a big difference between being willing to do something and actually doing it. In the church it is taught that "one of the covenants we make with the Lord when we receive our temple endowments is to live the law of consecration . ...