Morality in the Restored Gospel is faith in Jesus Christ:
- Receive instruction and admonition from God through the Holy Ghost.
- Believe this instruction and admonition.
- Act fully on the admonition, trusting in Jesus Christ.
Together, these three steps constitute faith in Jesus Christ.
To become faithful to Jesus Christ is to work by mental exertion (ME) as opposed to physical exertion (PE):
ME Control our mind until we have an eye single to the glory of God.
- Focus our mind’s eye only on the cause of Christ.
- Focus on the here and now and our own stewardship.
- Seek out everything virtuous, lovely, of good report or praiseworthy that would enhance our stewardship.
- Reject wishing for other stewardships or other situations.
- Reject personal desire for anything which will not promote the work of God.
ME Ponder and search in the Spirit that our understanding of the desires and ways of God might grow.
- Search the scriptures to understand all that God has revealed.
- Listen to church authorities and to other good people to learn what he does now reveal.
- Search the Spirit that God might yet reveal important things to us.
- Work these ideas back and forth in our minds until they make glorious sense.
ME Plan how to solve problems in our stewardship in righteousness before the Lord.
- Reject meddling in other people’s stewardships.
- Let love fill our heart for those in our stewardship.
- Search ways for that love to touch the lives of those in our stewardship.
- Select the way that best fills our understanding of the ways of God.
ME Search the Holy Scriptures about the way selected until we find the one that pleases Father.
- If our plan is quite good but wrong, we will feel a stupor of thought.
- If our plan is evil, we will feel a strong urge from Satan to do it, but a warning from the Lord not to do it.
- If our plan pleases Father, we will glow with love (the “burning in the bosom”).
ME Ask for the fulfillment of the correct plan with all of our hearts in mighty prayer (= asking in faith).
- Ask what power and gifts are necessary to fulfill the plan.
- Ask who has or could obtain the power and gifts necessary to fulfill the plan. (Here am I; send me).
- Ask in all humility for the power and gifts necessary to do the task, if it is right to do so.
PE Do whatever we are instructed to do to help bring about that plan.
- (As faith grows, using priesthood replaces physical work: ME replaces PE).
- With all of our faith and might, proceed to implement the plan that the Lord has shown us pleases Him.
- If we ask in faith, doubting nothing God has caused us to believe and feel, we can do whatever is necessary.