OBEDIENT CHILDREN –Thursday October 12th 2017
Memorise:
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Exodus 20:12
6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
6:2 Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise;
6:3 That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
MESSAGE:
Children
are assets of the Almighty God entrusted to our care.
We must therefore
ensure that we do all we can to nurture them for the Lord and not for
ourselves. We should strive to receive commendation from the Lord for
our efforts in bringing them up as children He can be proud of. Raising
children in today’s world is serious business. Unfortunately, we live in
a world where parents have left to chance or entirely neglected the
huge tasking of bringing up their children in the fear of the Lord. Open
Heaven 12 October 2017: Thursday daily devotional by Pastor E. A.
Adeboye – Obedient Children. Many
parents justify themselves by concluding that they are helpless, and
they shift the blame of their own failures to the happenings in the
society. In the time of father Abraham, there were also parents who did
not bring up their children to follow the path of God, but for Abraham,
his testimony was different. God said this concerning him in Genesis 18:19:
“For
I know him, that he will command his children and his household after
him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and
judgement; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath
spoken of him.”
If
you want to raise children who will be obedient to the Lord, you must
be ready to start right from the beginning of the child’s life. That is
what parenting is all about. It involves training and educating a child
from the phase of infancy through to adulthood. If you carry out the job
of parenting as unto the Lord, you will be well rewarded by Him. There
are many parents who realise late in life that they have neglected their
roles as parents. In order to make amends, some of them begin to make
efforts at “repairing” the lives of their children, but at that point,
they discover it has become a herculean task.
Obedient
children are godly children, committed to a life of honesty in all they
do. Such children will never bring shame, reproach or embarrassment to
the God of their fathers, because they have a deep understanding of the
covenant upon which they have been groomed. There are parents today who
have lost control of their children. Some other parents have turned
their children into symbols of idolatry. They fear their children more
than they fear God. May that not be your portion in Jesus’ Name.
Obedient children must honour their parents. They must respect them
irrespective of their status in society, if they want to live a life
without regret. When their parents need their attention or help, they
must be there for them. They must also be ready to submit willfully to
their instructions, corrections and rebuke. There are children who bring
sorrow to their parents. On the other hand, children of destiny bring
great comfort to everyone around them. Are you a child of destiny?
Prayer Point:
Father, let my children please You always, and grant me grace to care for my parents.
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Heavens Daily Devotional Lessons was written by Pastor E.A. Adeboye,
the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, one of the
largest evangelical Church in the world and also the President of
Christ the Redeemer's Ministries.
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