Until Christmas Day, the daily devotionals will follow the church’s “Light The World” campaign. I would love to hear how you and your family are lighting the world each day!
“Honour thy father and mother.” (Matthew 15:4)
Being a parent has, of course, helped me to appreciate my own parents more. It is hard to comprehend how much your parents love you until you have a child of your own. It makes you appreciate your parents and the sleepless nights they suffered at your expense–as a newborn and a teenager! The sacrifice increases your love for them, which in turn makes you more willing to sacrifice for them.
Being a parent has also helped me understand and appreciate the love my Heavenly Father has for me. With as fiercely as I love my child, and want to protect them and give them everything, I am imperfect. How much love our Father in Heaven must have for us in his perfection. The hardest thing to do as a parent is let your child step out into the world where you cannot protect them, and let them falter and fail and learn from their mistakes, and yet that is the entire basis of His plan for us. He loves us enough to give us that agency so that we can stretch and grow and then He sits back and pleads for us to use that agency to seek Him and come back home.
Meditation/Journaling Prompt: How can you honour your earthly and heavenly parents today?
