Marital Intimacy
I am quoting The Family: A Proclamation to the World and many members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. This is a very sacred subject, and in no way would I want to upset, or disrupt the sweet spirit of marital intimacy.
"The First Commandment that God gave to Adam and Eve pertained to their potential for parenthood as husband and wife. We declare that God’s commandment for His children to multiply and replenish the earth remains in force. We further declare that God has commanded that the sacred powers of procreation are to be employed only between man and woman, lawfully wedded as husband and wife."
This is from The Family: A Proclamation to the World. God has commanded that marriage is to be between a man and a woman. Not only is it ordained from God, it still remains in force that a man and a woman are to have children.
Elder Dallin H. Oaks once said, "The power to create mortal life is the most exalted power God has given His children. Its use was mandated in the first commandment but another important commandment was given to forbid its misuse. The emphasis we place on the law of chastity is explained by our understanding of the purpose of our procreative powers in the accomplishment of God's plan...Outside the bonds of marriage, all the uses of the procreative power are to one degree or another a sinful degrading and perversion of the most divine attribute of men and women."
God's gift to us is our bodies! It is unfortunate that we are bombarded everyday by the media with people who have the "perfect" bodies, lose weight quick programs, immoral acts on t.v., and in books, and what is it doing to society? It is going downhill and it is going fast. Its influence is mind-numbing. The greatest gift God has given us, most people don't like. Why? Because we feel like we can never live up to the "perfect" body, get fit quick workouts usually don't work, things such as pornography never satisfy, they will leave you empty and secluded from those you love.
Elder Holland once said, "Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body...know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid...Flee Fornication...He that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? Know ye not that you body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
Elder Holland continues, Our soul is what is at stake here-our spirit and our body....The purchase price for our fullness of joy-body and spirit eternally united-is the pure and innocent blood of the Savior of the world. We cannot then say in ignorance or defiance, "well, it's my life: or worse yet, "it's my body." It is not your life or your body. "Ye are not your own," Paul said. "Ye are bought with a price." As a result of the excruciating suffering endured by Him in the atonement -the payment He made for our sins-we are eternally indebted to Jesus. That is one reason we call Him "Master," in the holiest sense of the word. So in answer to the question, "Why does God care so much about sexual transgression?" it is partly because of the precious gift offered by and through His Only Begotten Son to redeem the souls-bodies and spirits-we too often share and abuse in such cheap and tawdry ways. Christ restored the very seeds of eternal lives, and we desecrate them at our peril. The first key reason for personal purity? Our very souls are involved and at stake."
In short, we have been given our bodies from God, that have been paid with a price, the suffering and Atonement of Jesus Christ, His Son. What we do with them is our choice, but our Heavenly Father hopes we would treat and act in a way that is in accordance with His command.
I know that the Family is ordained of God! I have been blessed to have a wonderful family, and wonderful parents. I am grateful for a body, though right now it is imperfect, but a body that is so special and so sacred.
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