![]() ![]() For example, if your parents take your money you earned at your job are saving for a car and spent it on alcohol and tell you that “as long as you live under my roof, you’ll obey my rules and give me the money,” that is wrong. If your parents encourage you to do something that is illegal or harmful to someone else, you can honor them and still not follow their advice. ![]() Honor is not obeying your parents no matter what. It might be easier to understand what honor is not. Should parents have to earn honor? Or, do they simply deserve it because they gave us life? These are tough questions for even healthy families and even more boggling if the level of dysfunction runs high. Once we figure out what honoring our parents looks like in those situations, we must consider another question. Then what? What does honoring your parents look like then? Maybe your birth parents abandoned you when you were born and you don’t even know them. But, what should you do when your parents are abusive? Perhaps they are alcoholics or mentally ill or manipulate you for their own benefit. What does honoring your father and mother look like? For many of us, we grew up being taught to obey our parents no matter what, be respectful, and not question. So, we need to pay close attention to what God says about our relationship with our father and mother. “Our Father who art in Heaven…” (Matthew 6:9). It’s such a big deal Scripture refers to God as our Heavenly Father and Christ constantly referred to God as our Father and taught us to pray and address Him as such. Yet another sign this relationship is a big deal to God. For one of the four dealing with relationships, God wanted us to pay special attention to our relationship with our parents. This obviously means they are pretty important. Out of all the laws in the Old Testament, 10 are highlighted. “Honor your father and mother…” (Exodus 20:12). The fifth is our relationship with our father and mother. Four of the five are related to our relationship with God. Of the Ten Commandments the first five are the “Dos” and the last five are the “Don’ts.” The “Dos” are all about relationships. ![]() Christ was referring to the Old Testament law summed up in the Ten Commandments. When Christ was asked by the rich young ruler what he should do to gain eternal life in Heaven, Christ asked him if he obeyed the law. The Ten Commandments are a pretty big deal. ![]()
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