088. Men Should Be Anxiously Engaged in a Good Cause

For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things;
For he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant;
Wherefore he receiveth no reward.

Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause,
and do many things of their own free will,
and bring to pass much righteousness;

For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves.
And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.

But he that doeth not anything until he is commanded,
and receiveth a commandment with doubtful heart,
and keepeth it with slothfulness,
the same is damned.

D&C 58:26-29