"Personal Purity" (Prologue)

President Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles said,
But these things I do know: I know “that marriage between a man and a woman is ordained of God and that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.”¹ I know that the earth was created and that the Lord’s Church was restored so that families could be sealed and exalted as eternal entities.² And I know that one of Satan’s cunning methods of undermining the work of the Lord is to attack the sacred institutions of marriage and the family.

1.      1 “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” Liahona, Oct. 2004, 49; Ensign, Nov. 1995, 102, paragraph 1.

2.      2  Whenever scriptures warn that the “earth would be utterly wasted,” the warning is connected to the need for priesthood authority to seal families together in holy temples (see D&C 2:3; D&C 138:48; JS—H 1:39).

Marriage brings greater possibilities for happiness than does any other human relationship. Yet some married couples fall short of their full potential. They let their romance become rusty, take each other for granted, allow other interests or clouds of neglect to obscure the vision of what their marriage really could be. Marriages would be happier if nurtured more carefully.”

“True happiness is predicated upon personal purity.¹³ Scripture commands: “Be ye clean.”¹⁴ Marriage should ever be a covenant to lift husbands and wives to exaltation in celestial glory.”

1.      13 See Alma 41:10.

2.      14 D&C 38:42; see also Isa. 52:11; 3 Ne. 20:41; D&C 133:5.

3.      See D&C 128:15–18.

“Personal Purity”

cji

8/1/17

(Prologue:

Forgotten amid the chaos

loud music and seduction

one of the single virtues

paramount to all others

being found pure-clean

apart from worldly sins

obeying Commandments

staying always with Father

pure thoughts and actions

personal purity always!)

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