Like a Fire is Burning

The other day I had the opportunity to attend the dedication of the Draper Utah Temple, and just after the dedicatory prayer and the hosanna shout (a part of the temple dedication) we sang "the spirit of God like a fire is burning," and as we sang the spirit washed over me and brought me back to a time in my childhood when I was three years old. I was in a church meeting where those same words were sung and I felt then, just as i did a few days ago, that great manifestation of the spirit that the song portrays. I did not know, when I was a child, and wish someone had told me sooner, the significance of those words or the feelings associated with them. But later, much later, I was taught of the importance and significance of those feelings that come to our hearts. I was taught that those feelings are truly the Spirit of God, testifying to us of the truthfulness of the message. The message in this case is the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and that "the latter day glory" is beginning to come forth. Though I still don't fully understand the impact of that message, I know that Jesus Christ appeared to the prophet Joseph Smith and gave unto him many plain and precious truths that have been hidden and lost over the ages. And I know that Christ's Church is restored on the Earth once more.