~ Friend Test ~<\/p>\n
\u201cIron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.\u201d\u00a0 Proverbs 27:17<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Just as continual chopping of wood will eventually dull an ax, continual \u201crubbing shoulders\u201d with the wrong crowd will dull our spiritual awareness. Two questions:<\/p>\n 1.What am I made of? (what effect do I have on my friends)<\/p>\n 2.What are my friends made of? (what effect do they have on me)<\/p>\n Iron sharpens; wood dulls. With God\u2019s help, let\u2019s not only be mindful of who our close friends are;\u00a0lets also\u00a0purpose ourselves\u00a0to be \u201cIron Christians\u201d and not little wooden toy soldiers.<\/p>\n “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them<\/span> that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” II Timothy 2:22\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ~ Friend Test ~ \u201cIron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.\u201d\u00a0 Proverbs 27:17 Just as continual chopping of wood will eventually dull an ax, continual \u201crubbing shoulders\u201d with the wrong crowd will dull our spiritual awareness. Two questions: 1.What am I made of? (what effect do I have on my friends) 2.What are my friends made of? (what effect do they have on me) Iron sharpens; wood dulls. With God\u2019s help, let\u2019s not only be mindful of who our close friends are;\u00a0lets also\u00a0purpose ourselves\u00a0to be \u201cIron Christians\u201d and not little wooden toy soldiers. “Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.” II Timothy 2:22\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[41,7,33,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendship","category-growing","category-guarding-from-sin","category-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-BY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}