When I was ten, I would count the years until I was thirteen. I saw thirteen as a big adult age and I couldn't wait to be there. Sixteen seemed especially old to me, and I looked up to anybody that age with admiration and awe. Oh, and eighteen! How ANCIENT!
Now here I am at eighteen, and a lot of the time I feel ten again. I stumble over my words and inwardly kick myself when I act like a fool. I long for an older more mature age when this will all be past.
How silly I feel sometimes when I shun my mothers help, only to later realize how much I need it! I feel like a baby, just starting to take her first steps! She holds on so tight to her mother, then quickly lets go, sure she can do it on her own. Then she stumbles and falls, only to be wrapped in her mothers warm arms again. "Oh dearest," the mother whispers, "you are still too small for such big steps!"
And that is the way it is with me some times.....
I am so sure at 18 I can conquer the world! I will cure cancer and defeat all the bad guys.......
But I can't cure cancer or rid the world of evil, and I am still so much a baby in so many ways.
I need my mother and father, and their gentle guidance.
I am learning to take correction when it is given, to admit I was wrong and to say I am sorry....... from everyone, friends and little siblings alike.
I am learning I am still in need of guidance, no matter how old I am, whether its 12, 16 or 20.
I also know that honoring and respecting authority and growing under them is what Yahweh requires of me.
When I was little, my parents had a chart on the wall. It had verses on it that told us how we were to bahave. One was Ephesians 6:1. I said that one out loud many times as part of my punishment when I was small, and because of that I can recite it quickly!
No matter how old I get, I know that verse is for me. It is the first commandment with promise!
Children, obey your parents in Yahweh 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 dwell long on the earth."
Ephesians 6:1
Obedience to my parents is not too much an issue anymore. :) But that is not the part of the verse that I like the most.
"Honor your father and mother...."
Honor is very important, and it always has been, in every culture. A knight had honor, a woman had honor, a king had honor, a commoner had honor. Everybody had it, and we are always going to be honoring somebody else!
Its a good lesson to learn now. I will never be done honoring or submitting. Putting myself under somebody else, whether its Yahweh, my parents, or a husband, I will always be honoring and obeying someone else.
I like that. Its the way its supposed to be!
Honor: Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence.
I really like what the last part of that verse says..... 'which is the first commandment with promise..."
Promise: to pledge; to give one's word; to vow; to commit oneself to a certain course of action
I Promise, I pledge, I give my word, I commit myself to listening and learning ,to grow, to find out what Elohim has in store for my life, to honor, to submit, to obey the authorities over me.
~Morgan~
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Amen! This is something that every young person (even older people!) should come to learn because I feel that many do not understand authority and how to honor it and submit to it. It isn't easy, every day is a constant battle to submit, but what Ephesians 6:1 is very true. (It is also true for all authority, not just your parents!) This is what Proverbs 6 says about it.
ReplyDelete20 My son, keep your father’s commandment,
and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
21 Bind them on your heart always;
tie them around your neck.
22 When you walk, they will lead you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
and when you awake, they will talk with you.
23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
To honor your parents and keep their teaching will be a light and will lead us when we walk, as you used the analogy of being a baby and stumbling on the first steps. Our parent's teaching will keep us from stumbling.
It is absolutely freeing and does make life a *whole* lot easier!