As Surely as Night Follows Day

As surely as night follows day
When we're disobedient we will lose our way
Thus, regardless of others we'll not change our course
As for moral standards, God is our source

Central to His plan and His love for us
Is that He wants us to feel joy, faith, hope, and trust
He wants us to love in fullness, committedly, as man and wife
To then bond together in creating from the fountains of life

But Satan would that we immorally relate
And find sin something to embrace or tolerate
He would some suppose that some are preset to another way
But we have the gospel, the priesthood, and we can pray

With each temptation there is a way to flee and escape
A way to repent, be clean, forgive, and erase
The plagues of today can become spiritually fatal
Thus we must be alert and awake to this long battle

We must protect the family as something sweet to cherish
For without it civilization and our liberties must needs also perish
The Lord is bound when we do as He says, and life is bright with purpose
But, as sure as darkness exists if we in this sin we will see no promise

This is a message of hope and light
And of power to change one's life
The key to repentance is to not look back
But forward to Christ for the strength we lack

How kind and merciful is our God
To have given us the safety and security of laws
How supreme and eternal is His plan
That we can repent and feel safe within His hands

Boyd K. Packer
Cleansing the Inner Vessel
Ensign, November 2010,