Mobile Daily Devotional Pst. Fakunle Emmanuel Week 33, Day 3
Tuesday, 17 August 2021.
TOPIC: OUR RESPONSIBILITY: TO OUR PARENT
Memory Verse: Roman 13:7
“7 Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.”
Bible Reading: Ex. 20:12
“12 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.”
Most times, our responsibility is what determines the best of our lives. We might be serving God day and night, praying for servant of God and still be lacking the blessings of parent. God works with principles and all His principles are interwoven.
2 Chronicles 20:20, said,
“20 So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.”
To be establish is linked to your responsibility to God. Your prosperity depends on your responsibility to God’s servant but to live long is attached to responsibility to your parent.
When you are responsible to your parents, such as listening to them, taking care of them, blessing and meeting their needs, you are bringing to fulfilment the above scriptural portion by increasing your days on earth. The scripture never give reasons why we shouldn’t honour our parents. Your both parent is to be honored. You shouldn’t honour one and dishonour the other. You have to honour both. Many of us talk to them the way we desire. Address them as a kid, that is not our responsibility to them. We have to give them the honour due to them.
Let me say this, the honour that belong to parents shouldn’t be giving to God’s servant. Many take care of God’s servant and neglect their earthly parents. It’s God’s instructions for us to honour and obey them always, this is our responsibility. We need to obey God fully.
Eph. 6:1-3
“1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”
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