By Contributing Writer, Jeannette Paulson
Book lists. Whether yours is mental or written doesn’t matter, but I hope you have a list of books you are planning to read. Good ones. Books are friends; choose them as carefully.
Jonathan Edwards’s Charity and Its Fruits, an exposition of 1 Cor.13, is worth its weight in gold –and more. Though I have not finished it yet, what I have read has provided conviction of sin and a deeper desire for godliness.
Allow me to quote a little section on censoriousness:
….censoriousness consists…in judging evil of others when evidence does not oblige to it, or in thinking ill of them when the case very well allows for thinking well of them; when those things that seem to be in their favor are overlooked, and only those that are against them are regarded, and when the latter are magnified, and too great stress is laid on them.
If charity is that without which nothing else counts for eternity (and 1 Cor.13 says exactly that), we had better take a few hours to understand what it means.
Edwards is a faithful teacher.
About Jeannette Paulson
Thank you, Jeannette, for this glorious truth you have quoted from the pen of Jonathan Edwards. The closer we walk w/our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.. the more we will be like Him… and He treats His children w/this amazing acceptance and vision for each one of us. I am challenged and blessed by your post.