I’m sure you’ve had this happen to you … where you read a passage of scripture for the umpteenth time and it strikes you as it never has before. That happened to me Sunday in one of our classes. The teacher had us read Moses 5:8, “Wherefore, thou shalt do all that thou doest in the name of the Son, and thou shalt repent and call upon God in the name of the Son forevermore.” Then she asked, “how do you do everything in the name of the Son?”  She was teaching a group of young women and so she asked, “How do you do your homework in the name of the Son? How do you interact with your peers in the name of the Son?”

Which made me ask myself, “How do I build web sites in the name of the Son? Or promote experts in the name of the Son? Or wash dishes or do laundry in His name?” It’s something I’m pondering this week. Perhaps some of it goes back to the sacrament prayer, “that they may eat in remembrance of the body of thy Son, and witness unto thee, O God, the Eternal Father, that they are willing to take upon them the name of thy Son, and always remember him and keep his commandments which he has given them; that they may always have his Spirit to be with them.”

Is it a matter of remembering Him as we go throughout our day and our work? Does remembering Him as we do these things change the way we do them? Do we do them with greater excellence when we remember Him and thus have His Spirit to enhance everything we do?

Do we shine a little brighter, stand a little taller because He’s there in all we do? What do you think? What does it mean to “do all that thou doest in the name of the Son?”