OUR PARENTS

“Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

Matthew 19:19 KJV

We are told in the Bible to honor our parents.  Are we doing it?  I think we sometimes forget that parents have feelings just like we do and it hurts them when their children say harsh and criticizing words to them and don’t respect them.  Parents should be loving so their children will respect and honor them.

A teenage boy said to his parents “You go to church, sing in the choir and teach Sunday school but when you come home you criticize the pastor and the sermon.  If that is what being a Christian is, I don’t want any part of it”.  It is very important that our children see us and hear us being kind and loving.

If we as parents want our children to love and respect us, we need to be loving and kind and set a good example so they will love and respect us.  Our Heavenly Father set a good example for us “And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17).

Do we tell our children we love them and prove it to them by our actions?  A dad yelling at his son who was doing drugs said “You are a disgrace to the family and I disown you”.  Yet even while the dad was yelling at his son because the son was doing drugs, the dad was smoking.  Parents must set a good example.

It is time that children love and respect their parents.  May God help parents and children love each other and prove their love for each other by their actions and their words.  Above all, every person needs to be kind and loving to our Heavenly Father.  God deserves to be praised, loved and adored.

Joanne Lowe

July 25, 2018