Put Ye On the Lord Jesus Christ
By Sister J. Anette Dennis
First Counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency
Covenants create the kind of relationship that allows God to mold and change us over time and lift us to become more like the Savior, drawing us closer and closer to Him and our Father and eventually preparing us to enter Their presence....
President Russell M. Nelson has taught that when we choose to make covenants with God, our relationship with Him can become much closer than it was before our covenant, and it enables Him to bless us with an extra measure of His mercy and love, a covenantal love referred to as hesed in the Hebrew language. The covenant path is all about our relationship with God—our hesed relationship with Him....
Through honoring our covenants, we enable God to pour out the multitude of promised blessings associated with those covenants, including increased power to change and become more like our Savior....
The Lord will teach us line upon line through the symbolism of the ordinances and covenants as we open our hearts and prayerfully seek to understand the deeper meanings....
I believe that my willingness to wear the holy garment becomes my symbol to Him. It is my own personal sign to God, not a sign to others....
Lord. Study the talks of our prophet (including the beautiful teachings in the footnotes of his talks, which most conference talks have).
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