Obey Your Parents

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Ephesians 6:1

               Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Colossians 3:20

This is a command that God has given us, to honor our father and mother. And Paul is restating it in both of these books, and usually when Paul restates something like this he means it not just as a suggestion, but a must as Christians. To obey the authority figures God has placed right above us, the parents He has blessed us with. Now everybody has parents, whether they are both in every one of our lives is not a question I can answer, but God has gifted us all with that authority in some way in our life. I am blessed to have very loving Godly parents that have sought the Lord in every aspect of raising me. When I was a child, obeying them was kind of easier. It just came with the territory, now if I always did exactly as they asked is another story. Because I know I had my fair share of discipline issues, but any kid with loving parents will have discipline issues. Because we are all born into sin and need wisdom of parents to teach us morals and so on. But as I grew up I found that obeying them became more difficult, because I grew to have my own ideas and own thoughts on how things should be done. One of my hardest times was in this past year, when my parents asked me to do something that I didn’t want to do at all. They had sought the Lord in it and were confident in how they should lead me, but it was a huge thing that I didn’t want to let go of and I didn’t feel like I had to. I was at the point in my life where I could make my own decisions as an adult and I really struggled with these verses. Trying to come to the conclusion of me still being a “child” that had to obey them, or if I could make my own decisions as an adult. I prayed about it for a long time and sought council with it for a while and in the Lord’s timing He showed me that I shouldn’t obey my parents to please them, but I should obey them, even though I’m not a child anymore, to glorify and honor Him. So by the grace and strength of God I let go of what they asked me to let go of and obeyed them. It was a huge growing experience for me and humbling time. People would continually come up to me and tell me how awesome they thought it was that I did that, but I had to tell them all the time that it was nothing I had done in myself, because it went against every fiber in my being, but God had done a work in my heart and brought me to surrender. And obeying my parents not to please them, but as these verses say, because it is right and it pleases the Lord.

Application- be thankful for the parents He has given me and realize how blessed I am.