We need to notice that it is not saying don’t help your friends, it is saying make sure you are working and growing in your walk first. As we surrender to God and open His word with an open heart we should be changing our behavior. When we are changing our behavior we are getting rid of our log and we can be truly helpful to our friends. And we need true friends that will be growing close to God and challenging us to do the same. In the book “11” by Leonard Sweet he talks about everyone having a Jonathan, a true friend. Jonathan was there for David no matter what; even to help him when Saul (his father) was after David. Sweet says, “A Jonathan stanches the internal bleeding from your bleeding body when depression (which shows up frequently in David Psalms) drains the life from your soul. If “melancholy prepares the devil’s bath,” as Martin Luther liked to put it from personal experience, a Jonathan fight’s to turn off the faucets.” Do you have friends that will help you with your speck? If not I say get some. I believe they help us stay focused in our own walk with the Lord. We need to remember that we can never stop learning and growing to keep the log out of our eye, and we should be working on being a Jonathan for people in our lives. Amen
Luke 6:41-42 “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think of saying, ‘Friend, let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrites! First get rid of the log in your own eye, then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friends eye.”
We need to notice that it is not saying don’t help your friends, it is saying make sure you are working and growing in your walk first. As we surrender to God and open His word with an open heart we should be changing our behavior. When we are changing our behavior we are getting rid of our log and we can be truly helpful to our friends. And we need true friends that will be growing close to God and challenging us to do the same. In the book “11” by Leonard Sweet he talks about everyone having a Jonathan, a true friend. Jonathan was there for David no matter what; even to help him when Saul (his father) was after David. Sweet says, “A Jonathan stanches the internal bleeding from your bleeding body when depression (which shows up frequently in David Psalms) drains the life from your soul. If “melancholy prepares the devil’s bath,” as Martin Luther liked to put it from personal experience, a Jonathan fight’s to turn off the faucets.” Do you have friends that will help you with your speck? If not I say get some. I believe they help us stay focused in our own walk with the Lord. We need to remember that we can never stop learning and growing to keep the log out of our eye, and we should be working on being a Jonathan for people in our lives. Amen
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Dolores
12/14/2009 02:40:12 am
Let's leave the specks out of it and be a true friend. Sometimes it is hard to know who are only acquaintances and who are true friends. My grandfather told me many years ago, "If you have enough true friends to fill the fingers of one hand by the time you die, you are the luckiest person in the world."
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