The Temple Garment: An Outward Expression of an Inward Commitment

A worthiness confession:
Our sacred temple garments
Are an outward expression
Of our inward commitment
To live in Light's succession

Of all the covenants we have made
It's a tangible reminder
That when devotion's displayed
The wearer is found the finder:
That we've God's instruction and His aid

What's of the world should not be lusted
As with the Lord we are betrothing
We have been endowed by Him and intrusted
With the sacred nature of our clothing
Which like His laws are not adjusted

The garment of the holy priesthood
Will protect and save us from perish
Let's serve Him and go about doing good
For it's more than laws that we cherish
As, out of love, we commit as we should

Elder Carlos E. Asay
The Temple Garment: "An Outward Expression of an Inward Commitment"
Esign, Aug. 1997, 19

Matt. 23: 23-26
23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
24 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.