What makes the man?

1. Rise up, O men of God!
Have done with lesser things.
Give heart and soul and mind and strength
To serve the King of Kings.

Men of God must seek to serve. Service, helps us become like our Heavenly Father. We are helping where others need us. Service to God allows us to put off the natural man and brings us closer to him.

2. Rise up, O men of God,
In one united throng.
Bring in the day of brotherhood
And end the night of wrong.

Men of God seek the good in all things. Finding joy in all things fills the room with light and brighten all around you. Finding the good is hard, yet it is all around us. The secular world fills our minds with the need to seek out the evil. The things that we call sin, the world glamorizes. The things that are noteworthy and good, the world calls that boring, old fashion, dumb and even flat out wrong.

3. Rise up, O men of God!
Tread where his feet have trod.
As brothers of the Son of Man,
Rise up, O men of God!

We must go to work. The work of the Lord is awesome. There has never been another time when it has been so important to be anxiously engaged in a good work. There is much to do. The gospel must be preached to all the world. The temples have much to be done. We must stand tall. Stand up, get to work and seek to teach the word of God.

It is time to come unto the Savior. Learn of him! Nephi taught, "And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins."

Christ brings us to the Father. He seeks to bless us. He made it possible for mercy to have its claim on us. 

It is time to redouble our efforts and seek to come closer to the savior!