Learn Wisdom by... (Come, Follow Me)

In our Come, Follow Me reading this week, the Lord declared that the ignorant may "learn wisdom by humbling himself and calling upon the Lord his God, that his eyes may be opened that he may see, and his ears opened that he may hear; For my Spirit is sent forth into the world to enlighten the humble and contrite...." (Doctrine and Covenants 136:32-33).

President Nelson taught this again in our last General Conference with a specific warning for our time.

If most of the information you get 

comes from social or other media, 

your ability to hear the whisperings 

of the Spirit will be diminished.

If you are not also seeking the Lord 

through daily prayer and gospel study, 

you leave yourself vulnerable 

to philosophies that may be intriguing 

but are not true. 

Even Saints who are otherwise faithful 

can be derailed by the steady beat 

of Babylon’s band.

--Russell M. Nelson

Let him that is ignorant learn wisdom by humbling himself and calling upon the Lord his God, that his eyes may be opened that he may see, and his ears opened that he may hear; For my Spirit is sent forth into the world to enlighten the humble and contrite….

Doctrine and Covenants 136:32-33

Christ carries us (Come, Follow Me)

From this week's Come, Follow Me reading.... I know the Lord loves us, carries us through our afflictions which he felt, and redeems us.

In all their afflictions he was afflicted. And the angel of his presence saved them; and in his love, and in his pity, he redeemed them, and bore them, and carried them all the days of old

Doctrine and Covenants 133:53

God will deliver me (Come, Follow Me)

From experience I have learned, as did Joseph, that the Lord is powerful to deliver us from peril.

And as for the perils which I am called to pass through, they seem but a small thing to me … for to this day has the God of my fathers delivered me out of them all, and will deliver me from henceforth.  Doctrine and Covenants 127:2