Perhaps “clean” finally amounts to full surrender of each thought or feeling to the Lord. “Look unto me in every thought”; He says, “doubt not, fear not” (D&C 6:36). Full surrender—heart, might, mind, and strength—underlies full consecration and is the essence of that covenant. Indeed, the Lord’s angel teaches this principle to Adam—and to his covenant children: “Thou shalt do all that thou doest in the name of the Son….” (Moses 5:8) Surrender to the Lord introduces us into a new spiritual dimension and experience, even in the most trying circumstances, as in the persecutions that caused
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