Mormons Love Their LDS Temples
When you walk into someone’s home you usually get a good idea about what they’re interested in. I have a friend who has a buffalo head, antilope head, elk head and a deer head all facing me when I enter their door. Another friend is a huge 49ers fan. There are banners and jerseys plastered all over the walls and a football on display. I even toured one lady’s house that was full of collectable dolls. They were everywhere. I think that’s just how we all are. We like to display the things that we are passionate about. That’s how Mormons are about their temples.
If you ever enter the door of an active member of the LDS (Mormon) faith’s home, you will find pictures of their temples everywhere. LDS Temple Art can be found anywhere a memeber of the LDS faith lives. The Salt Lake Temple is the most used icon to represent the LDS faith, therefore it is also the Temple that is most often found on the walls of LDS homes. The reason for the love Mormons have for the Temple is simple. In November of 1994 President Howard W. Hunter who was serving as the President of the Church at the time said during General Conference;
“I invite the Latter-day Saints to look to the temple of the Lord as the great symbol of your membership. It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple. It would please the Lord if every adult member would be worthy of—and carry—a current temple recommend. The things that we must do and not do to be worthy of a temple recommend are the very things that ensure we will be happy as individuals and as families.”
Inside the LDS Temple, members of the LDS Faith are sealed together as eternal families. They believe that nothing is ever lost. That through the promises made in the Temple, the relationships that are enjoyed on earth are also enjoyed in the world to come. Husbands and wives will still be together with their children. Parents and grandparents will be forever linked to those who are seperated from them for the remainder of this life. So when a parent loses a child to death, the sight of the temple is the representation of hope. A hope that says they will be together again. Through promises made in the temple that hope has turned to faith and in that faith is found the most charitable act the Lord has ever done. Allowing families to stay together always.
My mother-in-law has a small miniture of the Salt Lake Temple she keeps in her living room. A few years ago she lost her father just after she lost her mother. When she looks at that miniture sitting on her table she sees so much more than the building it represents. She sees her parents.
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