Friday, May 23, 2014

Honor Your Father and Your Mother


A wise son makes a father glad, but a foolish man despises his mother.” Proverbs 15:20 NKJV
Cards and phone calls on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are nice and greatly appreciated, but they are not the sum of honoring our parents. In my book “Taking Care of Joe” I deal with this commandment a lot. The home is the proving ground of what we truly believe. Scripture says we cannot love the person we cannot see if we don’t love the person we can see. Likewise, honoring God is not possible if we don’t know how to honor our parents. Jesus told the Pharisees that they broke this commandment when they said they donated money to God while ignoring their parents’ needs.
Solomon calls us to act wisely in regard to our parents. He warns us that our public conduct does not just reflect on us but brings either honor or dishonor to those who bore us. Of course we need to keep those cards and phone calls coming, but we also need to remember that truly honoring our parents is an everyday affair that brings glory to God. 

Our Lord and God, Thank You for the parents you gave us. Amen. 


The Friday Benediction
Until Monday, my friends, may the good God envelop you with His grace; may you prove the common confession of faith, “I believe in the holy Christian church and in the fellowship of the saints”, and may you be enriched with joy and hope as you exercise that confession this weekend.  Amen


You can contact me and find inspiring Christian books at my website: www.davidccraig.net
You may also find some of my selected daily devotions at http://blog.febc.org/
You may also enjoy the Gospel dog blog, “The Gospel According to Molly”, and the Alzheimer’s blog, “Taking Care of Joe” both found on my website.  

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