Without violating covenants, and seeking to avoid speaking lightly of sacred things, I would like to share some of what I have learned through the years while serving in the temples of our God:
1. A deeper comprehension of the scope, majesty, beauty and divinely decreed order of the earth’s creation.
2. The enduring and eternal impact of Christ’s atonement across the span of time and eternity.
3. The love, virtue, wisdom, keen understanding and courage of Mother Eve.
4. How the Law of Agency has been preserved in every facet of the Great Plan of Happiness.
5. The eternal truths that underlie Paul’s declaration; “Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.”
6. The powerful synergy that comes from a teaching progression of...“line upon line and precept upon precept.”
7. The true source of the destructive doctrines of; condoning, political correctness, and enabling.
8. That Satan will teach truth…… if in so doing he can make more effective the inevitable, destructive deceits that follow.
9. Sometimes what appears to be the actions of a vengeful God exacting out punishment, is actually a loving Father explaining the consequences of our actions.
10. A deeper appreciation for the truth that God has created worlds without number....and for His work he carries out among them.
11. A clearer vision that Satan is still fighting to replace God.
12. How it is that the “seed of the woman” shall have power to crush Satan’s head.
13. That God’s promises are not always fulfilled in our timing, and that it is important for us to trust in those promises, even when it appears that there is no way they can be fulfilled.
14. The empowering gifts that God has given us to strengthen us against our soul’s enemies, and to keep us in remembrance of our covenants and duties.
15. A renewal of the witness that God (Elohim) is not an absentee God, but has been, is, and will be, involved in His work on this earth (which is us), until we are finished.
16. That the Law of Sacrifice as instituted from the beginning not only heralded Christ’s atonement, but also His resurrection.
17. The power of symbols in assisting us to remember.
18. The truth that anger malice and unkindness can restrain the out pouring of the Holy Spirit.
19. Unique insights into the thoughts of those who crucified our Lord
20. A sweet and personal understanding of what Enoch experienced, with regard to his posterity, when “his heart swelled wide as eternity; and his bowels yearned…”
21. A familiarity with the absolute reality of, and vision of the focus of, those who have died as it relates to temple worship.
Even with all that learning, my soul still senses that there is so much more for me to learn there and I am reminded of Isaiah’s prophetic words; “And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways…”