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.
How can we guard our hearts?
The Bible, at times, makes for very uncomfortable reading.
Consider these opening verses of 1 Kings 11: “Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, ‘You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.’ Solomon clung to these in love … So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David His father had done.”