What It Means to Honor Your Father & Mother

Today’s Reading: Ephesians 6:1-4

6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— 3 “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”

4 Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

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At the very least, what it means to honor your father and mother is to thank God for using your parents to give you life. This means you don’t have to think your parents were good parents and you don’t even have to have known your parents—all you have to do is honor them for the way God used them to bring you into the world.