3 Nephi 18:1
And it came to pass that Jesus commanded his disciples that they should bring forth some bread and wine unto him.
This verse comes after Jesus has been teaching the people for a while. The first thing to point out, is that Jesus is commanding them to go and get bread and wine. He doesn't just ask it or request it, but he commands it. Commandments aren't something that the Lord takes lightly, so this shows the importance of this act. Commandments also result in blessings if they are kept; this tells us that Christ wanted to bless the people he was with. But why did the Savior ask them to bring him bread and wine? He was a resurrected being, he didn't need it for himself. But this would result in blessings for the people, so Christ asked them to make a sacrifice. He could have created the bread and the wine and they would have been much better than anything anyone could have brought to him, but he wanted them to have to opportunity to sacrifice something for him. This parallels our lives today so perfectly. There are so many things that Christ could just give us, and it would be perfect and would be beyond anything we could think of, yet he still asks us to sacrifice the things that we have for him. What we sometimes fail to understand is that he does not ask us to do these things to fill his needs, but to fill ours. What matters to him is that we are giving him something that means something to us. Whether it be money, time, talents, etc. there's nothing we can give him that he can't create a better version of himself, but when we give something that matters to us, at the altar of Christ our sacrifice is perfected.
The Lord loves you, I love you!
Paige
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