Honouring Parents

Exodus  20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Praise the Lord!!

Today we will meditate upon an important topic about honouring parents. Honouring those who begot you, gave you all the happiness, moulded you into what you are right now. Yes!! I am talking about honouring father and mother. It is extremely important to God that we should honour them because there are 3 types of blessing in honouring them.

1. Thy days will be long.
Here we workout, have excellent food. Do everything what the nutritionist say and follow a strict regime but God gives you long and fruitful life by honouring your parents. When we forgive and forget every mistakes that they might have made. You are honouring them. When you spend time with your parents, you are honouring them.

2. Blessed while you work.
We always want blessing and will take extreme steps to procure it. God says when we honour our parents. He releases blessing in our life. Your life will never be the same again. Understand this verse says that which God gives unto thee. We might think I work hard, am self motivated, try everything possible under the sun to be successful, listen to all the motivational speech. So why do I need God. No friends!! We need him because it is written all the gold and silver is mine. For everlasting happiness you need to do what He says.

3. Obedience to his word.

Hebrews  3:15  While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

When we don't harden our hearts and listen to what the creator says. We release a blessing in our lives.

It is strange that God had earlier said in Genesis that.

Genesis  2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

This scripture is highly misinterpreted and many leave their parents and stop loving them and focused only in loving their wife.

Friends!! Jesus said that if you don't love the person whom you can see with your natural eyes. How can you say you love God.

What does it mean by honouring our parents?

Dictionary meaning for honour is regard with great respect.

When we regard somebody in great respect we tend to overlook their shortcomings and their mistakes.

God bless