{"id":2893,"date":"2023-03-11T14:45:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T14:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2023-03-12T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T14:49:41","slug":"listen-and-be-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/listen-and-be-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Listen and Be Wise<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">As a Church and a people it behooves us to be wise,\u00a0and to seek to know the will of God,\u00a0and then be willing to do it;\u00a0for \u201cblessed is he that heareth the word of the Lord, and keepeth it,\u201d\u00a0say the Scriptures. \u201cWatch and pray always,\u201d says our Savior, \u201cthat ye may be accounted worthy to escape the things that are to come on the earth, and to stand before the Son of Man.\u201d\u00a0If Enoch, Abraham, Moses, and the children of Israel, and all God\u2019s people were saved by keeping the commandments of God,\u00a0we, if saved at all, shall be saved upon the same principle. As God governed Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as families,\u00a0and the children of Israel as a nation;\u00a0so we, as a Church, must be under His guidance if we are prospered, preserved\u00a0and sustained. Our only confidence can be in God;\u00a0our only wisdom obtained from Him;\u00a0and He alone must be our protector\u00a0and safeguard,\u00a0spiritually and temporally, or we fall. \u2013 <em>Joseph Smith, \u201cTeachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith,\u201d p. 253<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Church and a people it behooves us to be wise,\u00a0and to seek to know the will of God,\u00a0and then be willing to do it;\u00a0for \u201cblessed is he that heareth the word of the Lord, and keepeth it,\u201d\u00a0say the Scriptures. \u201cWatch and pray always,\u201d says our Savior, \u201cthat ye may be accounted worthy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,599],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-listen","tag-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2894,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}