Things New and Old: Whetstone and Millstone

Things New and Old

Ancient truths revealed in the Scriptures are often forgotten, disbelieved or distorted, and therefore lost in the passage of time. Such ancient truths when rediscovered and relearned are 'new' additions to the treasury of ancient truths.

Christ showed many new things to the disciples, things prophesied by the prophets of old but hijacked and perverted by the elders and their traditions, but which Christ reclaimed and returned to His people.

Many things taught by the Apostles of Christ have been perverted or substituted over the centuries. Such fundamental doctrines like salvation by grace and justification have been hijacked and perverted and repudiated by sincere Christians. These doctrines need to be reclaimed and restored to God's people.

There are things both new and old here. "Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things" 2Ti 2:7.

Friday, October 27, 2023

Whetstone and Millstone

Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron;
so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

October 27, 2020

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Proverbs 27:17
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

I thank and bless the Lord for giving me friends who are good ironmen to sharpen me. May the Lord bless such friends richly to continue to sharpen me. Amen.

Thank you to each of such precious friends from the Lord. They are my teachers. What tender mercies for such friends in the Lord.

There are those who want to remain blunt and dull; any attempts to sharpen them will incur their wrath. 🙁

Wives are more than friends, though they may not be as iron;

God-fearing wives are sure as whetstones and believe me, whetstones SHARPEN TOO.

Metal sharpens metal in ways different from the way metal is sharpened on a whetstone.

Let married men rejoice since the Lord has given them quiet whetstones in their own homes. Bring the blunt blades or arrowheads or dull minds to their own whetstones; much good will result.

Blessed is the man who has a ready whetstone at home to sharpen himself.
Woe is the man who has a millstone at home to GRIND him.

Proverbs 19:13 KJV —
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Proverbs 21:19 KJV —
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.