You’re Doing Good — Moroni 7–9

Come, Follow Me: Book of Mormon 2024 (December 9–15)

The word “good” has a bad rap. When someone tells me I did good, it conveys a message of receiving a “B” instead of an “A”. If I go to the sentinel talk by Elder Oaks where there is a gradation: good, better, best, good is at the bottom. Marketers would say that Christmas gifts should be the best ever, life-changing, or even perfect. You won’t see the advertisement, “Buy this good gift.”  

But if God tells me I’m doing good or very good, it’s the same words he used when he created the earth. “And I, God, saw everything that I had made, and, behold, all things which I had made were very good; and the evening and the morning were the sixth day.” (Moses 2:31). This must be the understatement of the eternities! The majestic mountains, stunning sunsets and sunrises, flutter of a hummingbird, these are just “very good”? In God-speak, good must stand for breath-taking, amazing, marvelous, wonderful. It’s the peak of superlatives for Him.

Moroni must have understood this divine definition because Moroni 7 is all about good:

 “…all things which are good cometh of God…” (Moroni 7:12).

“But behold, that which is of God inviteth and enticeth to do good continually; wherefore, every thing which inviteth and enticeth to do good, and to love God, and to serve him, is inspired of God” (Moroni 7:13).

“And as surely as Christ liveth he spake these words unto our fathers, saying: ‘Whatsoever thing ye shall ask the Father in my name, which is good, in faith believing that ye shall receive, behold it shall be done unto you” (Moroni 7:26). 

Let’s abandon the spacious building view of good and replace it with God’s definition. Let’s seek good, do good, and be good. Let’s fill our lives with grand goodness. Let’s use the criteria, “is this good?” to define where we spend our time, our money, our energy, our thinking, (and maybe even what we eat!). 

Doing good continually will help us conquer evil and help us through hard times because it comes from God. Ultimately, it will result in us hearing these words, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of the lord” (Matt 25:21).

Do Hard Divinely Better Lesson #49: Seek good. Do good. Be good. Remember, you’re doing good.