Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the LORD your God is giving you. —Exodus 20:12
In our culture, God’s command to honor our parents is one of the most neglected and least heeded of all His commandments. In countless ways, we have been encouraged to blame our parents for our dysfunctions, to expose their faults, to declare our independences from them, and to leave them to fend for themselves.
In so doing we have not only brought great hurt and harm to our families, but we have also inflicted greater injury on ourselves.
The command to honor our parents is accompanied by a promise of great blessing. In dishonoring our parents, we forfeit God’s blessing and we are bound to reap the painful consequences that Scripture promises to those who fail to honor their parents. The blessings of honoring our parents and the consequences of dishonoring them will be experienced in our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being in our relationships with others, as well as in any children and grandchildren that we may someday have.
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©2023 Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
How could you honor your parents today? Ask God to show you any ways you may have dishonored them, for which you need to repent.