TUESDAY January 14, 2025
Children’s Duties
Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to the Lord.
Colossians 3:20
After establishing the husbands’ and wives’ roles in the marriage, Paul now addressed children living with Christian parents. Just as there is an order of submission between the husband and wife––wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord––there is a godly submission seen in the relationship between Christian parents and children.
Perhaps your parents do not know the Lord. This can be difficult, as a child cannot obey their parents in all things if they have been asked to do something ungodly. It will violate their conscience. Nonbelievers may watch things on television that a teenage child, in good conscience, cannot see. As a young adult, you may have to go into your room, but do so peacefully, without showing disrespect for your parents. Be a good example to them.
Children have been given the responsibility to obey their parents because this is well pleasing to the Lord. Teach your children, whether they are younger or older, to be pleasing to the Lord. Obedience is always the key to God’s blessings.
Children are not only to be submissive to their parents; they are to also honor them. “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you” (Exodus 20:12). Did you notice the promise given to children who honor their parents? In Ephesians 6:2-3, it is mentioned again: “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”
Children are to obey their parents and show them honor. Before the Lord, strive to become better sons and daughters. God, who keeps His promises, will give the obedient child a blessed, long life.
The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.
~Susanna Wesley~
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