For those of you who don't know, I'm from Bountiful, Utah. High up the mountain is the beautiful Bountiful, Utah LDS temple. I never realized how much I would miss the temple until I moved away to college.
Living on the third floor of the new Heritage Halls with my window facing North, I have a perfect view of both the MTC and the Provo temple.
As beautiful as it is, it just can't compare to my Bountiful temple.
For the past 12 years, I have grown up with it in my backyard. When I was a little girl, my sister and I would climb up through the trees in our backyard and have picnics in front of the temple. I have grown up with the Bountiful temple, it's been my nightlight for years.
Today it dawned on me how much I have taken this for granted. Heavenly Father has blessed me with a knowledge of temples, He's been gracious enough to have put me in a place where a temple was in my ward boundaries growing up. What a blessing!
Temples are where heaven meets earth! They are houses of God. What a blessing it is to have a temple for a body!
I found this picture on Facebook the other day.
It struck me.
It reminded me of a tweet I had read the other day that had also struck me as hard. It reads:
@MissionaryLDS
"All of satans attacks and temptations have to do with the body because hes jealous he cant have one. You are strong. Don't let him win."
After this tweet, I started to think about it. Do all of Satan's attacks really have to do with the body?
It is Satan that leads God's children to break the word of wisdom, poisoning their bodies.
It is Satan that guides God's children to break the law of chastity, poisoning their minds and their souls.
It is Satan that tells girls they aren't pretty enough.
It is Satan that tells boys they aren't strong enough.
It is Satan that is breaking apart families, because he wants us to feel worthless.
Our bodies are temples. Satan hates that he made the wrong choice. He hates that he doesn't have a body. He hates us for making the right decision to follow our Heavenly Father and His plan. He's so jealous of us that he will do anything to make us hate our own bodies. He wants us to hate ourselves as much as he hates himself.
This honestly breaks my heart. He could be as happy as we are with the gospel if he had only chosen to follow his father. I know it must break God's heart to see his son trying to push his other children off of the path... so sad.
But how grateful I am for the knowledge of this truth! How grateful I am for temples that are multiplying in number! I'm so grateful for the knowledge I have that my body is a temple, oh how I treasure it.
If you even made it this far in my blog post, I congratulate you... I know it gets boring after a while. I just love this gospel and wish I could share it with everybody that has ever lived on this earth!
Don't forget you are a child of God! <3
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