Ephesians 6:1-3
Children obey your parents and that is always good council,
but God did not stop at that point.
This is how verse one reads in my English Standard Version of the Bible;
“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this
is right.” As a
parent and now a grandparent, it is refreshing to see children that are
obedient to their parents, and it is very disturbing seeing so many who have no
regards for their parents authority.
I believe obedience is best defined; Doing what your are told, the
first time you are told, in the manner in which you were instructed to do it,
with a good heart attitude; anything less
than that is not obedience.
I’ve lived 68 years on planet earth and it has been a long
time since I viewed myself in the role of a child, but that does not change how
God my Father views me. How am I
doing in the area of “Children, obey your parents
in the Lord, for this is right.” I understand it’s talking to children,
but has God not called us His sons and daughters, has He not referred to us as
His children? Can we learn
anything from the way Jesus acted in regards to His Father, that we could put
into our minds and hearts?
It is year 33 on planet earth and our Lord is getting ready
for the Feast of the Passover with his disciples, and Jesus knows it is time
for Him to depart out of this world and go back home to His Father. He is having supper with the twelve and
He is sharing a lot of information with them, like one of them will betray
Him. He is also giving a new commandment
that we love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one
another. He goes on to tell them
this “I am the way, and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through me.” He
then informs them about the Holy Spirit that will come and live in them, and He
ended the after dinner talk in this way: “But I do
as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the
Father. Rise let us go from
here.” (John 14:31)
My prayer is that you and I will allow the Holy Spirit to
renew our minds and open our hearts to show the next generation that we love
the Father and do as He has commanded us.
From the Back Porch,
Bob Rice
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