When an unbelieving parent dies
Twenty years ago my mother died.
She had been raised a Roman Catholic in a devout Catholic home.
In the years after my conversion, which baffled her (‘But surely your baptism washed away your sins’), I was able to speak with her about the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. And then she died. Whether she died trusting alone, however simply, in the Saviour, God alone knows.
Fearing God
“Honour everyone. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the emperor” (1 Peter 2v17).
Most reading this will have some idea what it means to “Honour everyone. Love the brotherhood. Honour the emperor”. But how many know what it means to “Fear God”? We need to know what it is to fear God because the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge (Prov.1v7) and because the Lord delights in those who fear Him (Ps.147v11).