Rights and Obligations

When most of us think about contracts, we probably think about legalese, fine print, and language designed to give us less than we thought we were bargaining for. We have been taught, through hard experience, that contracts are something to be wary and suspicious of. So when we talk about covenants as contracts, as we often do in the Church, I wonder if some of our suspicion toward contracts doesn't sneak into those discussions. That is, we fear that despite our best efforts to live up to our covenants, when the time comes to reap our eternal reward, we will get less than what we thought—or hoped—we were bargaining for.