564 Reflecting on Yourself This Way Is Key
Intro
Here’s what is most important
in self-reflection and knowledge.
Verse 1
The more you think that you’ve done well
or you’ve done right in certain things,
and the more you think you’ve met God’s will
or you have things to boast about,
then in those things it’s all the more
worth coming to know yourself
and digging deep for impurities
and that which can’t meet God’s will.
Verse 2
What Paul went through shows us this truth.
Paul knew more than most others did
and suffered much in his preaching work.
People held him in great esteem.
Thus he assumed there’d be a crown
set aside to reward him.
This led him down the wrong path
until he was punished by God.
Chorus
Where you’re sure you’re doing well,
it’s that part of you worth knowing even more;
it’s where you should seek the truth all the more.
Only then can God make you pure and perfect.
Verse 3
Paul did not aim to seek the truth
in the words of Jesus the Lord.
He just believed in his own notions
and that doing good and acting well
would earn him God’s favor and praise.
In the end, his imaginings
blinded his heart and hid his true face.
This should warn all God’s believers.
Bridge
Whenever you feel you’ve done especially well,
or believe you are gifted in some respect
and you don’t need to change or be dealt with,
you should strive for better knowledge of yourself
in that respect in order to see
if there’s something that resists God.
Chorus
Where you’re sure you’re doing well,
it’s that part of you worth knowing even more;
it’s where you should seek the truth all the more.
Only then can God make you pure and perfect.
Verse 4
Your every move and all you do,
and your direction and your goals
are now set by your thoughts and views.
Some people wear a good disguise,
don’t show or say things that resist God,
but there are things deep in the mind
that God hates and wants to expose
and that we should understand.
Pre-chorus
This is why God says:
Chorus
Where you’re sure you’re doing well,
it’s that part of you worth knowing even more;
it’s where you should seek the truth all the more.
Only then can God make you pure and perfect.
Adapted from The Word, Vol. 3. The Discourses of Christ of the Last Days. Only by Recognizing One’s Own Misguided Views Can One Truly Transform