Title The meaning of parents
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Hymn: 304 (New Hymn 579) 'A Mother's Broad Love'
Meditation: Parents are a precious way to meet God. Taking good care of your parents will help you expand on many other things.
Confession of Faith: Apostles' Creed
Text: 'Honor your father and mother, that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you' (Exodus 20:12).
The family is a precious basic community that God has given us. Therefore, the home is not a place of judgment, but a place of love. It is a place where you must enjoy the love of Heavenly Father and live. Today, we have to look and live with God's heart in our homes, and we must especially look at God's heart toward our parents.
Who are your parents? From God's point of view, parents are people for God to accomplish His will. Therefore, our parents become channels to God. If the prayers and love of our parents are burdened, or if we are having a hard time because of our unbelieving parents, we should see how God uses us through all these processes.
God works and works through all relationships. Therefore, our relationship with God is very closely related. In order to rectify our relationship with God, we must first rectify our human relationship.
In other words, you will come to know God through your parents and come to know God. So, upright parents must show God's heart through their lives. And children come to know God through their parents.
God tells us to honor such parents. Because this is the beginning of obedience to God. Obedience is speaking like a parent. Visible obedience begets invisible obedience. The life and joy of obedience through parents lead to life and joy toward God. Therefore, it is difficult for those who have a difficult relationship with their physical parents to have a deep relationship with God. First, we need to forgive and tolerate our parents, and we need to obey them.
Finally, He says that your life will be long, which is a blessing from God. Parents are the channels of God's blessing. Let's win by seeing God at work through our parents.
Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you for giving us precious parents. No matter what your parents look like, let them discover God's will through them and help them look back on themselves. I pray in Jesus name. Amen.
Lord's Prayer