Watch Your Weight!

The LORD'S fifth Commandment

Exodus 
20:12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 

To honour is to give weight to, to respect and to adore; that is according to God. 

In this day and age most of society has all but forgotten the commandment our loving Father has given us to honour our parents; most of those that still think on it, likely tend to pick and choose in which times and contexts this commandment applies.

If we stop for a moment and reflect on scripture, we see the LORD giving us His desire of giving our elders, namely our parents, honour. 
Honour in respect, obedience, servitude and adoration, this of course is under the pretense that parent and child are living in the will of God.

Proverbs
1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. 

Respecting and loving our parents means much more than listening to and not arguing with them. I believe God calls us to look up to them, follow their example and direction and to revere their importance to God as well as to ourselves.

In hebrew, honour means to make heavy, to be burdensome. God calls us to take the gift of our parents with great weight and consideration and to honour the heritage of our families with the lives we choose to live.

Proverbs 
30:17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. 

By the grace of God alone we are brought up in God fearing, loving families. We need to value the place our parents and elders hold not only in our own lives but in the importance they hold to God.

Remember, God is our eternal parent. He will love us, keep us and treasure us forever because we are His; if and only if, we choose to honour Him.

Be heavy in honour and your troubles will be lite! 

God bless xo