704 Knowing Your Own Nature Is Key to a Change in Disposition
Chorus
Knowing your own nature is key
to a change in disposition.
This must happen in accordance
with God’s revelations.
Verse 1
It is in the word of God
that you can know your nature,
recognizing Satan’s poisons
in your hideous nature.
Only through the word of God
can you see your own foolishness,
the weak and negative elements
within your nature.
Verse 2
Only when these are fully known,
when you’re able to hate yourself
and truly forsake the flesh,
always carrying out God’s word,
and when you truly have the will
to utterly submit to God’s word
and to the Holy Spirit,
you’ll have walked Peter’s path.
Chorus
Knowing your own nature is key
to a change in disposition.
This must happen in accordance
with God’s revelations.
Bridge
Without the grace of God,
without the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
this path is too difficult to walk.
For people lack the truth
and cannot forsake themselves.
Verse 3
With shallow self-knowledge,
you cannot solve problems,
and your life disposition
will never, ever change.
You must know yourself profoundly,
the elements of your nature.
From where do these elements come?
How do they originate?
Verse 4
Are you able to hate these things?
And have you seen your ugly soul?
If you can really see that truth,
you will start to hate yourself.
Only when you loathe yourself
can you forsake the flesh
and have the needed strength
to practice the truth with ease.
Chorus
Knowing your own nature is key
to a change in disposition.
This must happen in accordance
with God’s revelations.
Adapted from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Part Three