What is Love?

Our desire to bridle our passions will become easier as we begin to focus more on true love that will last and endure through time rather then lust that will become corrupt and eventually be lost forever. This week, I can’t help but feel grateful for the knowledge that I have been given regarding the law of chastity and the sanctity of life. I was recently taught an analogy regarding bridling a horse and controlling one's passions.When you first begin to work with horses you feel like they are useless, you can’t control or handle their actions. Once you begin to learn about the “bridle bit” that is placed in the horses mouth, you begin to see how just this extremely small piece of metal can control the whole horse. As you apply pressure to the bit the horse will stop or as you lift the bit towards the left with the slightest touch the horse will begin to turn. 

We as sons and daughters of God need to learn the same principle that the young horse learned, to respond to the promptings of the holy spirit and bridle our passions or in other words keep them under complete control for when the time is right. Love is something that grows over time and develops as we continue our relationship with each other. During this process we must learn to be completely diligent in bridling our passions, responding to every touch or feeling the spirit tells us. The adversary would want us to go against our bride and give into the natural man and fulfill our lust full hearts. This will only bring heartbreak and misery. We must endure to the end. Faithfully. As we do so we will feel of God's love for us and He will see our faithfulness and bless us for keeping His commandments. The Procreation power is divine. We must treat it that way. We have a great power within us to create life and bring forth Gods children. We play an important part in the plan of salvation in helping Gods children to receive a physical body. We can’t take this responsibility lightly. As we recognize the depth of our responsibility our desire to bridle our passions will become easier and we will begin to focus more on true love that will last and endure through time rather then lust that will become corrupt and eventually be lost forever.