“My Meat Is to Do the Will of Him That Sent Me”
John 4:34
34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Elder D. Todd Christofferson said:
“Jesus’s own moral discipline was rooted in His discipleship to the Father. To His disciples He explained, ‘My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work’ (John 4:34). By this same pattern, our moral discipline is rooted in loyalty and devotion to the Father and the Son. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ that provides the moral certainty upon which moral discipline rests.
“The societies in which many of us live have for more than a generation failed to foster moral discipline. They have taught that truth is relative and that everyone decides for himself or herself what is right. Concepts such as sin and wrong have been condemned as ‘value judgments.’ As the Lord describes it, ‘Every man walketh in his own way, and after the image of his own god’ (D&C 1:16).”
(“Moral Discipline,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2009, 106.)
