My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again. — Billy Graham —
Colossians 3:20 (KJV) Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.
Children are very vulnerable. When I was a kid some Saturday’s my brother, me and some friends would jump on our bikes and take off. We might go miles from home and wouldn’t come back for hours and some day not until late afternoon. That wasn’t a problem back in those days but today things are much different and I have to ask myself why? Now I agree we went to places that mom and dad told us not to go. One place was Carol’s Lake. It was a lake off the road and down in the woods about 3 or so miles from the house. It wasn’t a public lake but a private lake where no adults were present. It could be very dangerous thankfully no one ever drowned there that I know of. Nonetheless, we disobeying our parents by going there. The Bible is plain “Children, obey your parents” that would be honoring. God told us to honor our parents
Exodus 20:12 (KJV) Honour thy father and thy mother: It’s the only commandment with a promise from God if you do so. “that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.” Who doesn’t want a long life? I read a story of a young man in his late 20’s that was going on a trip with his friends. This young man’s mother asked him not to go because she didn’t feel comfortable about it. The young man talked with his mother trying to get her to change her mind but she would not. His friends put the peer pressure on him calling him a mother’s boy and other little names trying to get him to go but they couldn’t. The day came for the trip and his friends boarded a plane and took off on their trip. About 45 minutes into their trip the plane began to have problems and soon crashed in the ocean killing everyone on board except the young man who obeyed his mother who wasn’t on that plane. I know that’s a simple story but it shows the promise of what God said. If we honor our mother and dad our days will be long upon the land more so than diet and exercise. That’s A Written Promise From God Himself.
Psalms 119:140 (KJV) Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it. Don’t you just love God's Word?
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