Video 45 🌿 GOING UPON THE WAY ----------- What the Temple Was Always Meant to Prepare Us For
🌿 GOING UPON THE WAY
What the Temple Was Always Meant to Prepare Us For
There is an ancient understanding found across scripture and lived spiritual experience:
God intends to be known.
Not only believed in.
Not only spoken about.
But encountered.
Again and again, sacred language returns to the same idea — sometimes plainly, sometimes quietly:
“Going upon the way.”
Not attending a building.
Not passing a ritual.
Not learning the right responses.
But walking a path of preparation — one that leads a person toward God face to face.
Not symbolically.
Not someday.
But personally.
🕊️ ORDINANCES WERE NEVER THE DESTINATION
Ordinances were never meant to replace encounter.
They were meant to prepare a person to endure it.
At their best, sacred teachings calm fear, clarify truth, and loosen the heart’s grip on control. They are not about performance — they are about readiness.
When that purpose is remembered, ordinances serve life.
When it is forgotten, ritual remains — but transformation fades.
The temple was never meant to be the destination.
It was meant to be a threshold.
🚪 THE VEIL IS NOT A CURTAIN — IT IS A CONDITION
One of the most misunderstood ideas in religious life is the veil.
The veil was never meant to remain.
It was never meant to be passed mechanically.
It was meant to be removed.
The veil is not fabric.
It is fear.
It is borrowed belief.
It is the unprepared self meeting divine reality.
Many sincere people experience fear, pressure, or even darkness as they approach sacred ground — and assume something has gone wrong.
But scripture tells a different story.
Joseph Smith experienced darkness before light.
Moses trembled before peace came.
Isaiah felt undone before he was cleansed.
This is not rejection.
It is transition.
Light does not harm — resistance does.
God does not wound — the self yields.
Sometimes the Lord allows us to feel that moment so we will slow down, rest, and let Him prepare us more deeply rather than rushing forward unready.
🔥 THE WAY IS ABOUT BECOMING ABLE
“Going upon the way” was never about proving worthiness.
It was about becoming able.
Able to endure truth.
Able to endure love.
Able to endure presence.
The Way prepares the inner person — the heart, the mind, the will — so that what we long for does not overwhelm us when it comes.
This is why the Way is walked, not rushed.
💧 CHRIST IS THE ORDINANCE
Across all true spiritual experience, one truth stands unmoved:
No ordinance seals without Christ.
Any promise that endures is spoken by Him.
Any anointing that carries power is performed by Him.
Any covenant that lasts is ratified by His voice.
Sacred encounters are not bound to buildings.
They are not unlocked by hierarchy.
They are not controlled by systems.
Christ meets people where they are — often quietly, often privately, often far from ceremony.
That truth does not diminish reverence.
It restores it.
🌾 PREPARATION IS NOT COMPLETION
Throughout history, God opens doors in stages.
What is given at one time prepares for what comes later. What is restored first is often enough to point the way, not enough to replace the journey itself.
When preparation hardens into performance…
when structure replaces relationship…
when authority replaces transformation…
something essential is always lost.
That loss is not corrected by rebellion.
It is corrected by returning to the Way.
🪶 WALK GENTLY — THIS IS HOLY GROUND
If there is one thing the Way teaches, it is patience.
If you have felt fear near sacred things — you are not broken.
If you have felt pressure instead of peace — you are not failing.
If you have sensed that something more was always intended — you are not imagining it.
The Way is not rushed.
The Way is not forced.
The Way is walked with Christ, step by step, until the heart can endure what the eyes long to see.
Ordinances prepare.
Teachings guide.
But relationship completes.
And when the veil finally falls away, it will not be because we mastered a ritual —
it will be because we were ready to be with Him.
🌱 A QUIET INVITATION
This understanding — going upon the way — is what first stirred my heart to begin a simple series called Walking with Jesus.
It didn’t start with answers.
It started with presence.
If you feel drawn to walk more slowly, more honestly, and more personally with Him, you may want to begin there — with Video #1 — and simply walk as far as peace leads you.
No pressure.
No system.
Just the Way…
walked with Him.
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