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G. John White's first devotional Sold out for Jesus covers 12 vital themes of Christianity.
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January Topic: OBEDIENCE IS GREATER THAN SACRIFICE |
Of all the things I have had to learn over the length of my lifetime - this is the most important. If we don't get this right, the rest is impossible. So let's spend this first month of the year getting our priorities in the correct order. |
Deuteronomy 5:16
HONOUR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER
Today was my Mother's birthday. I'm actually writing it on what would have been her 80th but she got a higher call about 3 weeks earlier.
What does it mean, to "honour" your Father & Mother? The Bible says, "So you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord is giving you." Does that mean over 70 years?
Honour and respect go hand in hand. Have you noticed, we don't actually "choose" our parents? They are the ones God ordained should "bring us into this world". Without them we are less than "history", we are totally non-existent! Challenging thought isn't it?
God requests - more than that - God expects us to "honour" our Father & Mother "whoever" they are, and whatever they are like. I was blessed with great parents so it was easy for me, but what if I hadn't? I would still be required by God to honour them.
Have you noticed how God uses pictures? He gives us the "picture" of the father/son relationship so that we may catch a glimpse of the Father/Son relationship. Surely that is why satan is working so hard trying to destroy families and birth - parent\children relationships. God intended the father/son relationship to be a mirror image of the Father/Son relationship, which is perfect.
How terribly far short we fall don't we? No matter how hard we seem to try, we still fail so badly so often. I know I'm by no means the "model" father that I would long to be. Whenever I try to get it right, "something" seems to rush in to jeopardise it.
If the Father/Son relationship is the model, then maybe we can learn something about this verse to help us. How did Jesus "honour" His Father? "I only say what My Father told Me to say". "I only do what I see My Father doing". So the message is COPY!
But if we really want to get it right, maybe we don't "copy" our parents but copy "Jesus". If Jesus died for you and He became your Saviour, then His Father became your Father. As you honour Father as Jesus honoured Him, you will learn to honour your father and mother too.
Hey, let's show the world a different way!
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