Sometimes I read two different passages of Scripture and it seems the lighting changes in between them. The entire tone is quite different. Look at the different scene today between Proverbs 20 and John 17. In Proverbs 20 we are reading about what is good and pleasing to God, how we will know righteous people and unrighteous people, what we need to do to act wisely in this world. Cut to John 17 and we see Jesus praying for his people, talking with the Father about how the Father is glorified on earth in and through the Son. The landscape couldn't be more different.
What great care our Lord has for us his people. He has prayed for us. We are under divine protection. We have received the Word of God which gives us all we need. He has made peace between God and man. He has committed his followers to eternity. He will make them one in him even as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are inseparable. May we have grace to live as our Lord has prayed we may live.
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