{"id":16,"date":"2011-06-16T11:26:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T15:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/wordpress\/?p=16"},"modified":"2011-06-25T07:31:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-25T11:31:39","slug":"who-is-sharpening-whom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Sharpening Whom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Proverbs 27:17 NKJV<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Take a moment and jot down the names of your top three friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">Some questions to ask about your friends:<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">1.\tWhy have I chosen them as my friend(s)?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 60px;\">What is it that draws us together?<br \/>\nWhat element(s) do we have most in common?<br \/>\nWhy do I really \u201clike\u201d them?<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">2. How do they sharpen me?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 60px;\">Do they sharpen my walk with Christ?<br \/>\nDo they sharpen my spiritual senses?<br \/>\nDo they evoke fleshly responses from me?<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">3.\tWhat effect do I have upon them?<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 60px;\">Are they better having known you?<br \/>\nCan you tell if they walk closer to Christ than when you met?<br \/>\nDo your conversations reflect the grace of God?<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">4.\tHave I cultivated our friendship in a way that honors God?<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17,15,30],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","tag-devotional","tag-outline","tag-proverbs","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mastonjackson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}