Honour
What a blessing it is to know that the Lord is there watching us, hearing us and walking with us every time we call onto him. God never lets us go. And for this we must give thanks and praise his name.
As to our own parents who brought us into this world in flesh, it is written...Honour thy father and mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord they God giveth me. And again in Matthew 19:19...Honour thy father and thy mother.
How said it is too see that the new generation takes their parents for granted. They do not honour there fathers or mothers, or they do not honour neither parent.
In society where a large percentage of the population are raised by single mothers and fathers is hard to believe. Children in those families just want, want, want and the parent gives into him or her, as they feel guilty if they do not. But what the sad thing about this is, is the parents have lost control, the child no longer honours them, never gives them a card or a present of thanks. They care too much for themselves than of their own mother and father.
Of course there are children born into this world who have lost both parents, or one parent through death. But there are a large percentage of children being cared for by one parent and step parents. Where honouring one's parents no longer matters as long as the child has everything he or she wants.
There is an unfortunate story of a child who was conceived not out of love, but as an object for money. The mother as soon as the child was born left the father, they were unmarried so divorce wasn't the problem.
The mother raised that child alone and denied the father access, the child knew who the father was by name, denied him and only ever got in touch for MONEY.
Later it came to light the mother had many lovers, subjected her child to abuse, neglected her education. The child 16 years later taken into foster care does not know anything except what her mother taught, and that was respect and honour nothing.
This sad story breaks my heart to hear how children have become and becoming. One has to just look at the way children are in the streets, the way they talk to their parents. It is like they have been doctrined into evil, and see it as a way of life to have an evil heart.
The same can be said for many children in the Middle East who are seen as Martyrs if they attach a bomb to themselves and blow up non Islamic believers, thinking in the process they are honouring their mother and father in the name of Jihad.
Yet in Ephesians 6:1-2 KJV...
CHILDREN OBEY YOUR PARENTS IN THE LORD: FOR THIS IS RIGHT.
HONOUR THY FATHER AND MOTHER:(which is the first commandment with promise;)
But however a large number of children in today's society are born out of all things contrary to what God wants, for it is written in Galatians 5:17-22...
For the flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
But if ye be led of the spirit, ye are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, Fornication, Uncleanness, Lasciviousness, Idoltary, Witchcraft, Hatred, Variance, Emulations, Wrath, Strife, Sedition's, Heresies, Envyings, Murders, Drunkenness, Revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the spirit is LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONG SUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, FAITH.
God wants us to love and honour our parents and one another. But those born out of God's plan which is LOVE, JOY, PEACE, LONG SUFFERING, GENTLENESS, GOODNESS, and FAITH are victims of the devil, and as a result will not inherit the kingdom of God.
As it is written in Galatians 6:6-8 KJV...
let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for what so ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
For he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting.
The longer I live to see how generation by generation falling away from the grace and love of God, and by denying his son Jesus. The more I see a world full of evil, a world where the good will be persecuted until the time of the end.
However Jesus has warned of this time in Matthew 23:33-39 KJV where we who are servants of God will be persecuted as it is written...
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation's of Hell? Wherefore, behold I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shalt kill and crucify: and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city.
That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of Zach-a-rias, son of Bar-a-chias, whom ye slew between the temple and the alter.
Verily I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and ye would not!
Behold your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you. Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
What an honour it is to have one true God that so loves us that he sent his only son to save us so that we all have the opportunity to be saved and become like Jesus, one of his children.
This is God's plan.
However those born out of the devils plan can still have life with God by allowing God to take control through repentance, accepting and believing in all that his only son Jesus did so that we can have eternal life.
As it is a generation to come that will see the Lord. Who are you going to honour?