Respect
For Parents
Honour
thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the
Lord thy God giveth thee. Ex. 20:12
The best way to educate children to
respect their father and mother is to give them the opportunity of seeing the
father offering kindly attentions to the mother, and the mother rendering
respect and reverence to the father. It is by beholding love in their parents
that children are led to obey the fifth commandment. . . .
Our obligation to our parents never
ceases. Our love for them, and theirs for us, is not measured by years or
distance, and our responsibility can never be set aside. When the nations are
gathered before the judgment seat of Christ, but two classes will be
represented --those who have identified their interest with Christ and
suffering humanity; those who have ignored their God-given obligations, done
injury to their fellow men, and dishonor to God. Their eternal destiny will be
decided on the ground of what they did and what they did not do to Christ in
the person of His saints.
Parents are entitled to a degree of love
and respect which is due to no other person. . . . The fifth commandment
requires children not only to yield respect, submission, and obedience to their
parents, but also to give them love and tenderness, to lighten their cares, to
guard their reputation, and to succor and comfort them in old age.
While the parents live it should be the
children's joy to honor and respect them. They should bring all the
cheerfulness and sunshine into the life of the aged parents that they possibly
can. They should smooth their pathway to the grave. There is no better
recommendation in this world than that a child has honored his parents, no better
record in the books of heaven than that he has loved and honored father and
mother.
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