Friday, May 19, 2017

Love is not Passion


Having the personal and moral standard of being chaste is certainly not unique to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, as this video shows. Though the world has said that sexual relations and experimentation's are acceptable and even healthy most religions still believe in being chaste before and after marriage. For example, Christianity, Catholicism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Chastity is sexual purity and means not having sexual relations of any kind before marriage and honoring ones husband or wife with complete fidelity after marriage. The Adversary wants many to believe that this gift is a carnal hunger that is uncontrollable and a pleasure not meant to be restrained. It is this reason which keeps many people who haven't kept to chastity to fail to understand how anyone could stay faithful to just one person for the rest of their lives and into eternity. The Lord knows that when two people, who have adhered to the law of chastity, come together in matrimony it is something special and shared only between those two, creating a strong bond.

 "Physical intimacy between husband and wife is beautiful and sacred. It is ordained of God for the creation of children and for the expression of love within marriage."

Love is expressed through our emotions, beliefs and behaviors. Love isn't based on physical attraction to another person. If is it then it is doomed to die out as someone more attractive appears or one side gets bored. When love comes from mutual influence such as spending time getting to know one another, comforting each other and respect then that love is true and will be much longer lasting. 

"True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time. Too often expediency, infatuation, stimulation, persuasion or lust are mistaken for love. How hollow, how empty if our love is no deeper than the arousal of momentary feeling or the expression in words of what is no more lasting than the time it takes to speak them." (Successful Marriages and Families, 2-20)

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