Warm Welcome of a Temple Worker - Manifest Him

 

The Power of Godliness: Temple Work Connects Us to Jesus Christ

By Norman C. Hill

We also learn in the temple that the garment is “a symbol of the Savior Himself."...

The Holy Ghost can teach us and testify to us in—and outside—the house of the Lord, helping us know of God’s love for us and for all of His children. The Holy Ghost can reveal to us what is important, give us a vision of our eternal destiny, and help us know that the Lord has forgiven us. All of these are ways the Lord may manifest Himself to us in mercy in His house.

Making covenants with the Lord in His house shows that we desire a closer relationship with Him. As President Nelson taught, “The covenant path is all about our relationship with God.”...

The Lord may manifest His transformative power to us in the temple as we focus on our covenant relationship with Him, thinking less about what is happening around us in the temple and more about what is happening in us. The house of the Lord thus becomes a place of refuge, recalibration, and renewal. “I promise that increased time in the temple will bless your life in ways nothing else can,” said President Nelson.

Manifested in Others

The Lord may manifest His love to us in the service rendered by others. Every good act is inspired of Him and can remind us that He “went about doing good” (Acts 10:38). We might see Him in the warm welcome of a temple worker, in the kind gesture of someone holding a door open for us, in the inspiring examples of other members who come to the temple to serve.