Wow!!! I just listened to this talk today that was given a couple weeks ago at BYU. He doesn't mince words. This part stood out to me a ton too because in today's popularity and fashion culture, we miss the mark of what our temple garments symbolize and care more about affluence and influence, about maintaining appearances and popularity, than we do about principles and promises made in the sacred name of Jesus Christ.
"My young friends, I plead with you to take your temple covenants seriously! Keeping our sacred covenants with God is crucial- not optional. We are deeply dismayed by the casual and even cavalier way some treat their Temple covenants, including the casual and inconsistent wearing of the temple garment. There is among some a growing sense of spiritual apathy and casual Covenant keeping that is becoming increasingly common among those who should know and do better. Covenant keeping has nothing to do with personal preference and convenience and everything to do with commitment! I am confident that if these sacred covenants were better understood, they would be honored and cherished above all other commitments....
Are your baptismal and Temple Covenants [that you made in Christ] central to your life, or merely ancillary?"
- Kevin W. Pearson Oct. 2022 "The Abundant Life" https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/kevin-w-pearson/the-abundant-life-2/?M=A
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