Obey And Honor Your Parents!

Ephesians; 6:1-3

(Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with promise: "that it may go well with you and you may live long on the earth.")

We certainly don't see much of this in today's culture. Children are not only disrespectful to their parents, but they have no respect for the law or anything else. Much of this problem is the fault of the parents because they have refused to discipline their children as God has directed us to. As a result, we have reaped what we have sown. It's always interesting to me when I hear the news media ask "what's wrong with our children these days?" The answer is simple. We haven't obeyed God.

How can we expect our children to be respectful to others when we haven't shown them through example? We have a generation who have grown up without discipline raising children without discipline. Some of these parents shoplift, have a vulgar mouth, show no respect to others, drive drunk and the list goes on. I'm not saying that all parents are this way, but there are many who are and they are teaching their children by example. Then when their children get into trouble, they blame it on society.

Proverbs; 22:6
(Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.)
Children need to be trained because they can't raise themselves. They have a natural bent on evil and need discipline. That is why God has told us to raise them in His ways not the worlds ways. Each child is different and needs to be dealt with differently. What might work for one doesn't mean it works for the other. The best advice I can give is to be in prayer and ask God to help you raise your child. The Holy Spirit is their to help us and we need to listen. When we raise our children in the ways of the Lord, this will plant it into their heart for future reference or recall. At the point they start making decisions for themselves, we will know that we have given them a Scriptural base to help them in their decision making.

God's ways are good and beneficial to us if we walk them. If we refuse to walk in them, it will lead to destruction.
Proverbs; 10:29
(The way of the LORD is strength for the upright, But destruction will come to workers of iniquity.)
God has given us the Bible to teach us His ways and we need to teach our children His ways. If we truly love our children, then we will teach them the ways of God and pray that they teach their children the ways of God. It's the only way to reverse the cycle of unruly children.
Hosea: 14:9
(Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.)

God Bless You!