***OBEY YOUR PARENTS IN THE LORD***

Ephesians 6:1 says, “CHILDREN OBEY YOUR PARENTS IN THE LORD, FOR THIS IS RIGHT”. The above Scripture is most times misinterpreted or misunderstood by many especially when it comes to being obedient to our parents and thereby doing the right thing. But the real question there is, WHO ARE YOUR PARENTS IN THE LORD

Your parents in the Lord do not necessary have to be your biological parents, instead they are your godly mother and father that have surrendered themselves in faith and obedience to the perfect will of God with regards to raising their children for God. Your parents in the Lord reflects God’s image and likeness in the life they imparts to their children, and in the loving care they shows towards building a glorious and holy family life on earth that reflects the image of the heavenly.

From the beginning, the first parents (Adam and Eve) were created in the image and likeness of God (GENESIS 1:27). When God created humans, He created:
• One woman for one man, not multiple women for one man or multiple men for one woman(Polygamy),
• Not man for man(Homosexual) or woman for woman(Lesbians),
• Not father to son or mother to daughter,
• Not father to daughter or mother to sons,
• Not brother to sister or sister to brother etc. But one woman for one man for life!

In the light of this divine origin and purpose of the godly family, we need to better understand and value the parents’ relationship with their children in order to strengthen the children obedience and confidence towards the Father in Heaven. This is because; the relationship of parents and children had been the means for transmitting and establishing the Power of Sin or Righteousness.

Many parents make their children partakers of their sinful or righteous nature knowingly or unknowingly through their action, deeds, and hence, children inherited evil or goodness from their parents. If the parents are evil, it is possible that their children will directly or indirectly take over from them and vice versa.

A particular woman that uses her daughter to seduce and lure men into fornication and adultery viewed that prostituting her daughter will fetch her quick money and material things she needed. That is an example of devilish parent. A wise child from such woman should not obey her because she is not her parent in the Lord rather she is leading the child towards hell.

A father that sleeps with her daughter in the name of love is a wicked parent. A reasonable daughter that doesn’t want to destroy her destiny should not heed to such advances no matter the reason behind it.

Parents that trains, encourages and sends their children to steal, murder or defile others because of their selfish and wicked ambitions are not parents in the Lord.

What about parents that commits incents with their children; mother that engages the daughter into lesbian, a mother sleeping with her son, father that engages the son into homosexuals, etc. These are not our parents in the Lord, but evil parents. Obeying them and getting involved in the evil and wickedness they are into will only lead to path not to heaven but to hell.

When the parents are too sinful and evil, they will hardly be a blessing to their children. And this is what devil wants to achieve in order to put the whole family in shamble, creating a home that is hell on earth.

This calls for urgent need for children that wants to make heaven at last and be a blessing to their generation to recognize who are their parents in the Lord that points them towards holiness and righteousness and follow them, while turning off from the sinful and evil parents (whether biological or not) in order to save their souls from hell.

Parents must be what they want their children to be. They need to examine themselves and repent from all their sinful ways so that they will stand in a position to be a blessing to their children and not a curse. When their children hear them speak or act, let the impression they receive be the love of Christ they seek to show…SHALOM!!!

# PARENTS AIM SHOULD BE TO RESTORE OUR FAMILY LIFE TO WHAT GOD CREATED IT TO BE__A MIRROR AND A FORESTASTE OF THE LOVE OF HEAVEN #