Principles I found in my readings today.

Principle #1: Our body is a temple - they were bought with a price. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).

I just watched this Mormon Message about a newly built temple in South America. I couldn't help but get emotional as I saw the joy in the faces of the faithful members of the church in South America. The promises of the temple are like a fairy-tale, and to have access to it  nearby is like a dream come true for these people. 

I had the thought that this is what it must have felt like when we decided to come to earth to get a body. We learn from this great talk by President Bednar that getting a body is an essential step in our process to becoming like Heavenly Father someday. Part of the test of our life here on earth is how we properly use our bodies. We have been blessed with agency and have to be aware that Satan is fully aware that if he attacks our bodies, he will attack our progression. It doesn't take long to look around us to know how deceiving it's become. 

"Our physical bodies indeed are temples of God. Consequently, you and I must carefully consider what we take into our temple, what we put on our temple, what we do to our temple, and what we do with our temple. And we can learn a number of important lessons by comparing the Church’s temples to our physical bodies as temples." -Bednar

Principle #2: Man and woman were created to be together. (1 Corinthians 11:9)

I am going to quote another great talk by President Bednar. He was the president of BYU-Idaho while attended there and I heard him speak often. 

"After the earth was created, Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden. Importantly, however, God said it was “not good that the man should be alone” (Genesis 2:18; Moses 3:18), and Eve became Adam’s companion and helpmeet. The unique combination of spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional capacities of both males and females were needed to implement the plan of happiness. Alone, neither the man nor the woman could fulfill the purposes of his or her creation.

By divine design, men and women are intended to progress together toward perfection and a fulness of glory. Because of their distinctive temperaments and capacities, males and females each bring to a marriage relationship unique perspectives and experiences. The man and the woman contribute differently but equally to a oneness and a unity that can be achieved in no other way. The man completes and perfects the woman and the woman completes and perfects the man as they learn from and mutually strengthen and bless each other. “Neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 11:11; italics added)."

I know this is a very sensitive subject today, but it is my personal belief that God wouldn't make something right for some people and wrong for others. We are all his children and he knows what will bring us the most happiness in the end. We don't understand why we were given the trials we have been given, but I do know that he has only given us commandments with our happiness in mind. I trust Him with all my heart. 100%. 

Adam and Eve

 Principle #3: Godly sorrow leads to repentance, worldly sorrow is a dead end. (2 Corinthians 7:10)