Comments on: God’s Jewels

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:27:41 +0000

“Have a care of your Company, take heed of unnecessary familiarity with sinners;”

Yes, we share the gospel with the unregenerate, but in their unregenerate state we should not make them our buddies.

By: Luma

Luma — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:47:11 +0000

For over a week now I have been dwelling on how longsuffering God has been with me, through so many sins and shortcomings. That kind of love and longsuffering is too wonderful for me to understand fully, and as much as I try to emulate it, I fall short in that also. There was a time when that used to bring me to despair, now I see it as more longsuffering on His part. He knows that even as I try to be a better image of Him, as I try to overlook the sins and weaknesses in others I will fall short even in extending grace. And yet His grace abounds more. And we just get up and keep practicing that kind of love and grace.

By: Nancy Ann

Nancy Ann — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:53:49 +0000

Hannah, of course I completely agree with your point and I’m sure Watson would as well. I think he is simply using a metaphor and does not intend us to push it too far. He knew his Bible too well not to see this. Valerie, I also see your point as well. But both are true. God hates sin, and yet He overlooks so much of it in us.
Cheers to you both!

By: Valerie (Kyriosity)

Valerie (Kyriosity) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:42:12 +0000

Are these contradictory?

“But God doth not do so by us, he is pleased to over-look many sad failings, he seeth the faith, and winks at the failings of his people….”

“A man…cannot sin but presently God is angry….”

By: Hannah G

Hannah G — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:19:47 +0000

Thanks! These are terrific. However, I do have one teensy quibble with this: “We cannot catch health from another.” Do you think that’s altogether true?

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. (Proverbs 16:24). The right kind of friend, like a skilled surgeon, inflicts faithful wounds and offers hearty counsel that is like ointment and perfume (Proverbs 27:6 & 9). It seems that godly friends do bring a kind of health that is “catching.”

By: Yasmin

Yasmin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:50:15 +0000

Very good stuff, all of it; thanks for sharing!

By: Martha

Martha — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:13:30 +0000

Happy New Year! What wonderful quotes you have given us. How easy it is to see the sin rather than the grace in others. Thank you, thank you.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:23:46 +0000

This is wonderful — especially when you’re feeling like a lump of coal instead of a jewel. I very much like the admonition to be more afraid of sin than of suffering. That is a such a true word. Suffering can be borne if you know that you are in obedience.