Treat Your Parents the Right Way

[Chad]

Today's Devotional - August 24 & 25

Treat Your Parents the Right Way

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Ephesians 6:1

Recommended Reading
Exodus 20:12

We live in a dispersed society. More often than not, when children reach adulthood, their education and mobility allows them to take jobs that separate them from their parents. Therefore, it takes creative energy for adult children to continue to support and honor their aging parents who may live a great distance away.

Is that a Christian responsibility? It is so important that God included the responsibility for honoring one's parents in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:12). Those commandments were given to the whole community of Israel—adults and children. So there is no age limit implied. As long as one's parents are alive, the responsibility to honor them remains. Paul quotes this commandment in Ephesians 6:1, changing "honor" to "obey." And it seems obvious he is referring to younger children still living at home since he is discussing family relationships. And the reason he gives is simple: "this is right."

Regardless of your age, consider your responsibility to honor your parents if you are an adult and to obey them if you are still under their authority in the home. It's the right thing to do.

Obedience is the evidence of that honor which children owe to their parents.
John Calvin

Read-thru-the-Bible
Ezekiel 1-8

 

[PrayerWarr1or]

remember the big part of growing up and realizing that your parents are you human just like yourself. take your parents for granted in one day you may wake up and find it its too late to tell them you love them or even to reconcile with the parent you have not spoken to you in awhile.

the same lies true for all the people in our lives, but especially so for our parents