Moral Agency School

 

With all the alternatives to choose among
We've moral agency for the right or wrong
With freedom of choice and accountability
We've knowledge to increase our sensibility

While God preserves us from day to day
There's laws to obey or disobey
And though many opinions and preferences numb
We can't change the consequences or a fixed outcome

While Satan promotes conduct that narrows our station
Our God does not intend that we yield to temptation
He's given us a Savior, and redemption is possible
If we come to Him, to be like Him, and be responsible

The glory of God is intelligence
With wisdom learned through obedience
When we receive truth it is full of light
Till line upon line we are made bright

Knowing these things is only the start
The test comes as we experience the dark
That we can become independently strong
To yield to the right and flee from the wrong

And that we might know true liberty
While we are here in mortality
We've been given God's resources in full
That we might pass moral agency school

Moral agency

Our gift from God

Use it wisely

Choose the right not the wrong

Be accountable

And repent oft

D. Todd Christofferson
BYU Devotional
31 January 2006
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D&C 101: 78
That every man may act in doctrine and principle pertaining to futurity, according to the moral agency which I have given unto him, that every man may be accountable for his own sins in the day of judgment.

[Verse 1] With all the alternatives to choose among We've moral agency for the right or wrong With freedom of choice and accountability We've knowledge to increase our sensibility While God preserves us from day to day There's laws to obey or disobey And though many opinions and preferences numb We can't change the consequences or a fixed outcome [Pre-Chorus] While Satan promotes conduct that narrows our station Our God does not intend that we yield to temptation He's given us a Savior, and redemption is possible If we come to Him, to be like Him, and be responsible [Chorus] Moral agency Our gift from God Use it wisely Choose the right not the wrong Be accountable And repent oft Moral agency Our gift from God [Verse 2] The glory of God is intelligence With wisdom learned through obedience When we receive truth it is full of light Till line upon line we are made bright Knowing these things is only the start The test comes as we experience the dark That we can become independently strong To yield to the right and flee from the wrong [Pre-Chorus] And that we might know true liberty While we are here in mortality We've been given God's resources in full That we might pass moral agency school [Chorus] Moral agency Our gift from God Use it wisely Choose the right not the wrong Be accountable And repent oft Moral agency Our gift from God [Bridge] The test comes as we experience the dark That we can become independently strong To yield to the right and flee from the wrong And that we might know true liberty [Final Chorus] Moral agency Our gift from God Use it wisely Choose the right not the wrong Be accountable And repent oft Moral agency Our gift from God