OBEYING YOUR PARENTS

Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents
because you belong to the Lord,
for this is the right thing to do.



Disobedient children exist because disobedient parents exist. God's first instruction to parents is to teach their children to love God. If parents would just obey God, parents would find their children in full obedience of their rules and requests. As children, we need to remember that our rights have boundaries. I'd read this funny story about a father and son when the son was turning eighteen in a state where the curfew for minors was 11:00pm. The son told his father how happy he was that he could now stay out as late as he wanted. His father responded, “Yes son, you can stay out as late as you want, but the car is under eighteen and it has to be in the garage by eleven.” Parents need to understand that they themselves have to obey the Lord. Children need to understand that they have to obey the Lord and their parents. And everyone needs to understand that every privilege has it's limitations.