27 Feb 2018
Honor your parents
As I write this devotion I tremble with fear because I am guilty of breaking this commandment more than all of you reading this. When God gives us a commandment in His word there are definite consequences when we disobey them. Yes it is difficult to follow every commandment of His but as He promised His grace is sufficient. If we ask Him He will give us the grace to live a life of obedience towards His word and commandments.
Some of us are unable to see breakthroughs in our lives, some of us are going through endless health issues and some of us are facing only failures in our workplaces inspite of working so hard. One reason for this can be may be we are not honoring our parents as we ought to. I do not say that dishonoring parents is only reason for no breakthrough or failures or ill health but what I meant to say is when we hurt our parents by dishonoring them then we do have to bear the consequences. Remember what we sow we are gonna reap. Those of us who do not give respect to our parents as due unto them may have to face the same thing from our children or grand children.
Gods word is very strict in regards to the punishment concerning this commandment Matthew 15:4 For God said, ’Honor your father and mother’ and ’Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’ and Proverbs 30:17 "The eye that mocks a father, that scorns an aged mother, will be pecked out by the ravens of the valley, will be eaten by the vultures. At the same time of all the 10 commandments this is the only one which has a blessing attached to it in the statement itself. Exodus 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
So let us be careful in following this for when we obey the commandment there is a sure blessing to follow.