{"id":17,"date":"2008-05-30T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T02:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2012-03-23T21:05:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T03:05:44","slug":"what-say-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/30\/what-say-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What say YOU?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Satan is incredibly clever, we have no idea.\u00a0 He has successfully swayed our views on the Plan of Salvation and made us forget our purpose\u2026at least for now.<\/p>\n<p>There is a war going on right before our eyes.\u00a0 It is the war between good and evil.\u00a0 We are right in the middle of it and we have already picked our side.\u00a0 But we are forgetting a few things:\u00a0 We aren\u2019t keeping up with the rule book, we aren\u2019t putting our armor on, we aren\u2019t being a team player, and we consistently question our leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Satan has us right where he wants us.\u00a0 He has us creating our own rules (the poor me book has been written multitudinous times-nothing new to write about).\u00a0 We continue modifying, if not completely stripping off, our armor and swinging it around defiantly above our heads.\u00a0 He has us at each other\u2019s throats-the battle between men and women is his piece de r\u00e9sistance.\u00a0 And our leaders have been telling us the same thing for far too long and we still don\u2019t hear them.<\/p>\n<p>Wake up and arise from the ashes of the world!\u00a0 Pres. Hinckley told us to walk right down the center of the path-like we mean it.\u00a0 Not ride the line where Satan is there waiting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are surrounded by so much that is designed to divert our attention from those things which are virtuous and good and to tempt us with that which would cause us to be unworthy\u2026\u201d Pres. Monson warned us this past conference (May 2008).\u00a0 He continues, \u201cYou are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood (whenever anyone mentions priesthood it involves me and I need to be listening too), an holy nation, and you can make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satan is incredibly clever, we have no idea.\u00a0 He has successfully swayed our views on the Plan of Salvation and made us forget our purpose\u2026at least for now. 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