October 26
The Continual Burnt Offering" C hildren, 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 be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”"
Respect for and obedience to parents is the foundation of all society. Children who are rebellious and disobedient in the home will be resentful of control and enemies of orderly government when they grow older. More than that, if they do not obey their parents in early days they will not obey God in later years. This is why some consider that the fifth commandment really belongs to the first table of the law rather than to the second. The first table sets forth man’s responsibility to God, the second his responsibility to his neighbor. In childhood our parents stand in the place of God. We learn His mind through them, if they themselves are subject to His Word. In this our blessed Lord is, as in all other things, our great example. He who brought all things into existence by the word of His power voluntarily took the place of a child in a Jewish home and honored the law by being subject to Mary His mother, and to Joseph His foster father. Young Christians need to remember that they honor God by honoring their parents.
Give of your best to the Master,
Give Him the strength of your youth,
Clad in salvation’s full armor,
Join in the battle for truth.