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Obedience and Discipline and Instruction.

“¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.   ⁴Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”  Ephesians 6:1 & 4

A friend once told me that in essence, we are “foster parents” of our children and that we are raising them here on this earth for God.  And since we have that responsibility we have to be sure that our children are raised with love and care.  Notice in the verses above that obedience, discipline, and instruction are “in” or “of” the Lord, not of us.

This does not diminish our roles here as parents and children.  We are still responsible for obedience and discipline and instruction.  We are to be “in” and “of” the Lord at all times and know who we are ultimately answering to.

Below are verses 5 and 9 to continue the illustration of how we should act:

“⁵Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ,…⁹Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven and that there is no partiality with him.” – Ephesians 6: 5 & 9

I am constantly being taught more and more as I study God’s Word, and today is no exception.  We are here as God’s has granted us to be.  He is our Father and Master and we should treat him with that reverence.  We should also treat those that are our earthly parents, children, slaves, and masters with the same reverence, for they too serve the same Father and Master.

How are you engaging with those who care for you and those you care for?  Are we treating all with the reverence we treat the Lord?  What can we do differently for more obedience and discipline and instruction?