Honor your father and your mother. This commandment I think is the one I follow the best of all (I think) my parents has to say something about it! I remember as a child almost every Sunday we have to visit our grandparents. This was a routine for us. We go there, and stay there for at least 30 minutes. Maybe at that moment I didn’t see the importance of the visit, today I totally understand it, and even that I don’t follow the visits so close like my parents did.
Honor means obey, we should obey our parents because God give them that responsibility. We as parents must guide our kids to the right path. I always tell my kids; in this world there is nobody that wants the best for you than your parents. This is true in most cases. I know cases of parents that never take care of their kids, or abusive parents. Also, I know cases parents who neglect their kids and still, the kids love them, stay with them until the end. That is honoring your father and your mother.
Even that I am in my 30’s my parents still and will keep having influences in the decision that I make in my life. I also believe, this commandment includes all people that are older than us. Our parents are older, wiser; they have more experience in live than us. This means that we should honor our elders because they are older, wiser, and have more experience in life than us. I love talk with people older than me, because they represent wise and experience from which I can learn.
I do not expect that my parents or older people are correct all the time but they deserve the respect and the honor to be listened.
Proverbs 1:8-9
8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 9 They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
Big Hug,
MRM
"I know cases parents who neglect their kids and still, the kids love them, stay with them until the end. That is honoring your father and your mother."
ReplyDeleteThat is not always "honoring" because I speak from experience raised by abusive, controlling, alchoholic, sexually immoral parents. Many times it is kids staying out of guilt or shame with no other choice. PLEASE DO NOT tell kids raised by screwed up parents to STAY because this is HONOR, it is NOT! You may be helping the abuser more than the child. You are not helping a child to be free and not helping them see that it is wrong, you need to protect children from the horrors, adults fake nice outside of the home but God only knows what can go on behind closed doors. Honoring your parents can mean being honest with them and telling them they need help. If they repent then there is help for the family and kids, but if parents do not repent, then children of any age kids or adults, should not have to feel pressued to stay with negative parents who bring them down and make them feel like garbage. God does not want us to stay with abusive people who do not try to get better.
Dear Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comments. I really appreciate. I clearly understand what you mean because I see it not directly, but from a very close familiar of me. Your are completely right God does not want us to stay in an abusive relationship of any kind. Here there is more than honoring parents, in here forgiveness is involved. I believe there is not an absolute situation in this world; there are always exceptions to the rules. Please forgive me if I offend you in any ways.
I hope God bless you today and always,
Big Hug,
MRM