iMormon – Faith in Christ
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Not Big Love, but bigger love.
When HBO debuted Big Love, the show’s premise did raise some concern for me. I wondered how much viewers would assign their feelings and opinions of the characters and plot lines to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members. It is common in our society to attribute polygamy to the one group which is most opposed to plural marriage or any marriage that is not between one man and one woman. Mormons don’t promote or practice plural marriage. Church members who would are apostates and violate God’s law and the law of the land.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has sent out its own message through Mormon Messages on You Tube, teaching truth instead of engaging every adversary in rebuttal. It’s of greater value to share Christ’s message with the world. What was lost among mankind has been restored by the Lord. The totality of the gospel is once again on the earth in His Church. His priesthood authority and all of the gospel’s holy ordinances have been restored. The crooked paths of apostasy have been made straight by revelation. The Lord has call prophets and apostles to organize and lead His Church in the latter days. He has commanded these prophets to build temples as in times of old. He has fulfilled the prophecies found in the scriptures but denied or ignored by scholars and religious leaders of our day.
It is His house, His ordinances and His law; we are His beneficiaries. We do not enter into the House of the Lord by means of our own invention. The Redeemer of the world established an undeviating path toward Eternal Life for us to follow. We prepare ourselves through faith, repentance and obedience to his commandments. And when we enter the House of the Lord, it is to not for selfish reasons but to follow Christ. We go there to gain knowledge and power from the Lord. We go to the temple to seal our families together forever. We return to the temple to provide these same opportunities for our ancestors and to link our generations together as one eternal family, forgetting nobody, excluding nobody. Finally, we go to find peace from this world. One may want to explore further to gain a greater understanding of what takes place in God’s temples, but a sincere desire to know the truth reveals a beautiful doctrine of a bigger love that our Heavenly Father has for his children. Bigger than anything man can comprehend, except by revelation from God.
I invite everyone to the House of the Lord. If there is a temple near you, go for a walk on the grounds. If there is a visitors center there, go inside. Ask questions. Learn more. That one decision to seek for understanding from the Lord about His Church and His temples may prepare you to go into His temple and make sacred covenants with Him. You will find peace from every concern there. You will feel further from your problems and closer to heaven. At least, that’s been my experience. I hope it is your experience too.
If a man die, shall he live again?
Amidst his arduous trials, Job asked, “If a man die, shall he live again?” (Job 14:14). He looked forward to the Lord calling him from grave; his faith in the resurrection was sure. He testified to all of us, “Though this body be destroyed, yet in my flesh shall I see God.” (Job 19:26). Job’s testimony joins perfectly with the Savior’s own teachings about His disposition and ours as a result of His resurrection. He understood the revelations of true prophets. The Savior himself would explain to the disciples:
Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Tulúm’s diving God.
LaRinda and Dan in Tulúm, Mexico
The image you see at the top of the iMormon blog holds a special meaning to me for a couple of reasons.
I took this picture at the Mayan ruins in Tulúm, Mexico on the coast of the Yucatan. The picture reminds me of one of the most enjoyable weeks of my life. Sometimes, you really need a vacation… And LaRinda and I really needed that vacation. We enjoyed a week in the Caribbean with some of our absolute favorite people on earth and good friends. It was our first time on a cruise. After shedding apprehension—I would either have a blast or feel trapped on board the ship for a week—we hopped on the Westerdam to discover that cruising was—in deed—our cup of cocoa. That covers reason #1. Read the rest of this entry »
