{"id":3718,"date":"2022-05-31T02:41:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T02:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=3718"},"modified":"2022-05-31T02:41:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T02:41:58","slug":"the-sharpening-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2022\/05\/31\/the-sharpening-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"THE  SHARPENING MENTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another .<\/p>\n<p>Solomon uses the analogy of a  tool to illustrate the role of a  Worth full friend ,who  notices the blunt cutting edges in us and doesn&#8217;t spare us the file. Just like a tool which  is sharpened to introduce it to it&#8217;s  functionality ; to increase its  efficiency ,we also need the grinding stone in order to regain our cutting edge.<\/p>\n<p>In life , we need to look for friends who  fight dullness and  bluntness in our life. When we remain blunt, we end up using more energy in our assignments.  Ecc 10:10  If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.<\/p>\n<p>Files used for sharpening are usually made of material stronger than that of the tool being sharpened . The friends we choose to make us bigger and better  need to be  stronger and endowed with the necessary abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Sharpening is not sweet ; it calls for losing some part of us .Sharpening may demand offloading  some  behaviours,habits and friends . But upon completion, great duties come calling &#8211; One  becomes the<br \/>\ndarling of the user, effectiveness becomes the norm making one to cut easily past every situation and circumstance .<\/p>\n<p>Further readings:<br \/>\nPro 11:14<br \/>\nPro 20:18<br \/>\nPro 24:6<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f Blessed Day \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro 27:17 As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another . Solomon uses the analogy of a tool to illustrate the role of a Worth full friend ,who notices the blunt cutting edges in us and doesn&#8217;t spare us the file. Just like a tool which is sharpened to introduce it to it&#8217;s functionality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3718\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}