{"id":6278,"date":"2022-10-17T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6278"},"modified":"2022-10-17T09:54:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T09:54:13","slug":"%ef%bb%bfwho-cares-for-pebbles-when-jewels-glitter-before-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=6278","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffWho cares for pebbles \u2014 when jewels glitter before him?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Who cares for pebbles \u2014 when jewels glitter before him?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/gracegems.org\/21\/Charles_Spurgeon_sermons.htm\">Charles Spurgeon<\/a>, \u201cFlowers from a Puritan\u2019s Garden\u201d 1883)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo rule a kingdom, is a nobler matter than to play with marbles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What, then, is the folly of the worldling\u2019s choice, when he prefers to be contending among men for earthly toys \u2014 instead of seeking those things which are above!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How great is the degradation of professing Christians, when their minds are taken up with&nbsp;<em>fashionable trivialities<\/em>&nbsp;\u2014 instead of living alone to glorify their God, and acting as those whom Jesus has made to be kings and priests!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who cares for pebbles \u2014 when jewels glitter before him?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who would choose toys and rattles \u2014 when the wealth of the Indies is offered him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us be no longer children or fools \u2014 but act as men who have put away childish things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.&nbsp;<strong><sup>2&nbsp;<\/sup><\/strong>Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.&nbsp;Colossians 3:1-2\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who cares for pebbles \u2014 when jewels glitter before him? (Charles Spurgeon, \u201cFlowers from a Puritan\u2019s Garden\u201d 1883) \u201cTo rule a kingdom, is a nobler matter than to play with marbles.\u201d What, then, is the folly of the worldling\u2019s choice, when he prefers to be contending among men for earthly toys \u2014 instead of seeking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,68,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies","category-love-of-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6279,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions\/6279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}