Chris Tomlin - Holy Forever (Live) feat. Jenn & Brian Johnson

Anne Wilson, Chris Tomlin - The Cross

Evening

"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible."
1 Peter 1:23

Peter most earnestly exhorted the scattered saints to love each other "with a pure heart fervently" and he wisely fetched his argument, not from the law, from nature, or from philosophy, but from that high and divine nature which God hath implanted in his people. Just as some judicious tutor of princes might labour to beget and foster in them a kingly spirit and dignified behaviour, finding arguments in their position and descent, so, looking upon God's people as heirs of glory, princes of the blood royal, descendants of the King of kings, earth's truest and oldest aristocracy, Peter saith to them, "See that ye love one another, because of your noble birth, being born of incorruptible seed; because of your pedigree, being descended from God, the Creator of all things; and because of your immortal destiny, for you shall never pass away, though the glory of the flesh shall fade, and even its existence shall cease." It would be well if, in the spirit of humility, we recognized the true dignity of our regenerated nature, and lived up to it. What is a Christian? If you compare him with a king, he adds priestly sanctity to royal dignity. The king's royalty often lieth only in his crown, but with a Christian it is infused into his inmost nature. He is as much above his fellows through his new birth, as a man is above the beast that perisheth. Surely he ought to carry himself, in all his dealings, as one who is not of the multitude, but chosen out of the world, distinguished by sovereign grace, written among "the peculiar people" and who therefore cannot grovel in the dust as others, nor live after the manner of the world's citizens. Let the dignity of your nature, and the brightness of your prospects, O believers in Christ, constrain you to cleave unto holiness, and to avoid the very appearance of evil.

Every year Martin's parents took him to his grandmother to spend the summer holidays, and they returned home on the same train the next day.
One day the boy told his parents: "I'm big now, can I go to my grandmother's house alone?"
After a short discussion, the parents accepted.

They are standing waiting for the departure of the train, they say goodbye to their son giving him some tips out the window, while Martin repeated to them:
"I know ! I've been told that over a thousand times."

The train is about to leave and his father murmured in his ears:
"Son, if you feel bad or insecure, this is for you!". And he put something in his pocket.
Now Martin is alone sitting on the train just as he wanted, without his parents for the first time.
He admires the landscape through the window, around him some strangers jostle each other, they make a lot of noise. They get in and out of the train.
The supervisor makes some comments about him being alone.
One person looked at him with sad eyes. Martin now feels bad every minute that passes, and now he is afraid. He bows his head...
He feels cornered and alone, with tears in the eyes.
Then he remembers that his dad put something in his pocket.
Trembling, he looks for what his father gave him. Finding the piece of paper he reads it, on it is written:

"Son, I'm in the last car!"

This is life, we must let our children go, we must trust them. But we always have to be in the last car, watching, in case they are afraid or in case they find obstacles and don't know what to do.
We have to be close to them
as long as we're still alive. The son will always need his parents.
Forever in the last car.❤
~Unknown

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you or forsake you”
Deuteronomy 31:6

Amen 🙏❤️🙏

After the two days He departed for Galilee.

(For Jesus Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)

So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen all that He had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.

So He came again to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and asked Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

So Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe."

The official said to Him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.

As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering.

So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." And he himself believed, and all his household.

This was now the second sign that Jesus did when He had come from Judea to Galilee.

John 4:43-54