Thursday August 21st, 2014
Ephesians 6:1 “Children, obey you parents in the
Lord, for this is right.”
Colossians 3:20 “Children, obey your parents in all
things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.”
Well
clearly this is important, it’s repeated several times. Like I’ve said before
God uses repetition to get things across to our tiny human brains. It’s one of
the ten commandments, Exodus 20:12 says, “honor your father and your mother,
that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving
you.” You would think we would get it, but with our sinful nature it happens.
All you have to do is ask for forgiveness from your parents and R.E.P.E.N.T. to
the Lord.
One
thing that keeps coming to mind for some reason is Charlie Brown. Weird I know,
but it’s an example of the depiction of parents and that influences kids. All
of the adults on that show apparently don’t matter because their speech is
“wah-wah-wah-wah-wah”. Even with T.V. shows on Disney Channel today or just
T.V. shows in general, the kids are disrespecting their parents. Oh what a
world we live in…how unfortunate that we allowed sin to enter. But praise the
Lord for our Savior, Jesus Christ. Anyways, bringing it back…or the parents are
perceived as “uncool”…which I’m sure we can all agree to that from time to time
(haha), but speaking for myself, in the end I don’t know what I would do
without my mom. I have the privilege to obey her and my father as well. Not
only do I have the privilege to obey them, but it’s a command from the Lord and
He is the ultimate one we are supposed to follow and obey. Just like Acts 5:29 says,
“But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: ‘We ought to obey God
rather than men.’” No need to go into that because we just IBSed that the other
day, but just listen to the Lord and obey your parents. These verse are very
straight forward and I thank God for that.
Application: I feel like this is such a good
reminder and something that I can look to for when I return home, but right now
in this moment to remember to abide by this commandment from the Lord in
obeying my parents, I will write “parents>wah-wah-wah” on my hand. (Trying
to get creative here, especially with not being anywhere near my parents, but
regardless of that I need to obey them.) And I will call my parents to
apologize for any disrespect and disobedience that I’ve done.
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