{"id":2977,"date":"2021-02-02T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2021-01-31T12:12:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T19:12:47","slug":"living-wisely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"Living Wisely"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I always like to share insights from others when I find them. Heather Holleman published some wisdom on her blog January 30: <a href=\"http:\/\/heatherholleman.com\/2021\/01\/4-ways-to-move-forward-with-wisdom-for-february\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LiveWithFlair+%28Live+with+Flair%29\">4 Ways to Move Forward with Wisdom for February<\/a>. Here they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\"><li><strong>Just because you <\/strong><em><strong>can<\/strong><\/em><strong> do something doesn\u2019t mean you <\/strong><em><strong>should.<\/strong><\/em> Jesus said \u201cno\u201d to certain tasks often (Mark 1:35-38). Jesus also followed the <em>exact<\/em> instructions of the Father and did not go beyond this (John 14:31).<\/li><li><strong>Lots of activity isn\u2019t the same as bearing eternal fruit for God\u2019s kingdom.<\/strong> We\u2019re told in John 15 to abide with Him because apart from Jesus we \u201ccan do nothing.\u201d<\/li><li><strong>Our educated, strategic, and humanly good plans don\u2019t replace the wisdom of the Holy Spirit<\/strong>. We\u2019re told in Proverbs 3 to \u201ctrust in the Lord\u201d and \u201clean not on [our] own understanding.\u201d<\/li><li><strong>If we\u2019ve gone ahead of God in January\u2013perhaps with unwise choices or alliances\u2013we can pray that God \u201creleases [our] foot from the snare\u201d (Psalm 25:15), that we can live free from condemnation (Romans 8:1), and that God would mercifully make \u201call things work for good\u201d (even our mistakes).\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/heatherholleman.com\/2021\/01\/4-ways-to-move-forward-with-wisdom-for-february\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LiveWithFlair+%28Live+with+Flair%29\">Heather Holleman<\/a>, January 30, 2021, emphasis hers.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is all she wrote. I think I&#8217;ll share a few observations on some of these over the next couple of days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. (Ephesians 5.15 &#8211; 17, ESV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always like to share insights from others when I find them. Heather Holleman published some wisdom on her blog January 30: 4 Ways to Move Forward with Wisdom for February. Here they are: Just because you can do something doesn\u2019t mean you should. Jesus said \u201cno\u201d to certain tasks often (Mark 1:35-38). Jesus also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living Wisely<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-M1","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}