Quench Not the Holy Spirit

from my Bible reading:

Quench not the Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 5:19

The Holy Spirit is represented as a fire,
because it is his province to
enlighten and quicken the soul;
and to purge, purify, and refine it.
This Spirit is represented as being quenched
when any act is done, word spoken, or temper indulged,
contrary to its dictates.
It is the Spirit of love,
and therefore anger, malice, revenge,
or any unkind or unholy temper,
will quench it so that it will withdraw its influences;
and then the heart is left
in a state of hardness and darkness.
It has been observed that fire may be quenched
as well by heaping earth on it as by throwing water on it;
and so the love of the world
will as effectually grieve and quench the Spirit
as any ordinary act of transgression.
Clarke’s Commentary

John 2:15
Love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world.
If any man love the world,
the love of the Father is not in him.

Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters:
for either he will hate the one,
and love the other;
or else he will hold to the one,
and despise the other.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Mammon may therefore be considered
any thing a man confides in.
Clarke’s Commentary

 

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July 5, Today’s thought – The Clod and The Pebble

ID-10032215 potterPotter’s Wheel by dan, at freedigitalphotos.net

Good Morning

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Matthew_6:24

Mammon – Wealth regarded as an evil influence or false object of worship and devotion.

THE CLOD AND THE PEBBLE

Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.

So sang a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden with the cattle’s feet:
But a pebble of the brook,
Warbled out these metres meet.

Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to Its delight:
Joys in another’s loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven’s despite.
~~William Blake November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827

For Blake in this poem, the Clod of Clay represents unselfish love and innocence. The hard Pebble is materialism, These are the contraries we live with. To transcend them calls for “the annihilation of selfhood” and the release of the poetic genius.
~~from A Poem a Day, edited by McCosker and Albery

But now, O LORD, thou art our father;
we are the clay,
and thou our potter;
and we all are the work of thy hand.
Isaiah 64:8

Lord, mold me . . . Today
With my prayers, desiring yours, Leslie

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