Exodus 20:12 - Honor your father and your mother

Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Honor your father and your mother, that your (B)days may be prolonged in the land which the LORD your God gives you.

Exodus 20:12

Commentary

None of us showed up on this planet by accident. God, in his sovereignty, has chosen the time and place that each of us would live. He also chose who our parents would be. Because of this, we can honor and respect our parents-not because they are perfect-but because God is perfect. If we live with unforgiveness or distance between our parents and us, we actually place our self in the position of being God. That would violate the 1st Commandment of having no other gods before God. We are not God! If we reject our parents, we are rejecting God's perfect will for our life. To honor our parents is to respect them, as fellow flawed image bearers of God, and allow God to love them through us. To honor our parents is to honor God as LORD in our life.

Today's Commentary by:
Caesar Kalinowski, Pastor, Soma Communities