God"s Word On Parenting

God’s Word On Parenting

GOD’S WORD FOR A CULTURE

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord. Colossians 3:20

It is interesting to note that before a word is spoken in the Ten Commandments about how to treat others, God starts with the family. I don’t think anything can bring greater pleasure than our families, and few things can give us as much pain. Children have problems with parents. Parents have problems with kids. Sometimes people say, “Well, I came from a dysfunctional family.” Welcome to humanity. Who doesn’t come from a dysfunctional family?

Yet our very existence as a society depends on the success of the family. It has been said that a family can survive without a nation, but a nation cannot survive without the family. Yet there is such an attack on the family today. In fact, the Bible tells us that one of the signs of the last days will be a breakdown in the family and a disrespect for parents in particular: “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy . . . ” (2 Timothy 3:1-2).

So here is God’s word for a culture. Here is God’s word for a society. Here is God’s word for us: “Honour your father and your mother” (Exodus 20:12). The Hebrew word for “honour” means to be heavy or to give weight to something. In other words, we put value on our parents. Their value should be weighty to us. We must put weight on their value.

So whether our parents are Christians or not, the Bible tells us that we are to honour them. We are to give them the recognition they deserve for their God-given authority. We are to respect and esteem and value and prize them as gifts from God.

Prayer: Lord, thank You for blessing me with my parents.

Scriptural Reading: Colossians 3:18-25

18 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

19 Husbands, love your wives and do not be bitter toward them.

20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.

21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

22 Bondservants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in sincerity of heart, fearing God.

23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,

24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

25 But he who does wrong will be repaid for what he has done, and there is no partiality.

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God"s Word On Parenting