Honoring those in Authority

A. W. Tozer was a renowned Missionary Alliance Pastor who in a addition to having a prolific preaching writing and conference ministry had a deep love for children. On one occasion Tozer was walking with a friend to a restaurant near the church, they happened upon a grimy little boy playing on the sidewalk. Tozer stopped and asked him:

How old are you, sonny?

Without looking up, the little fellow answered, “I’m three.” “You couldn’t possibly be three years old,” Tozer objected. His integrity assailed, the boy at last looked up. “I am, too.” He asserted. I am three years old!” “No,” insisted Tozer. “You couldn’t possibly be three. No-body could get that dirty in three years!

One assured experience of parenthood, is dealing with children who are drawn to dirt like a magnet!

Being a parent is hard. I think you could make the case that parenting today is harder than ever before.

It's not easy raising kids these days, so say more than 2,000 parents in a new Pew Research Center study on parenthood. Overall, parents cite the biggest challenges today as societal factors such as drugs and alcohol, peer pressure and media's impact.

Not far behind are other key issues including teaching moral values and maintaining discipline. Broken down further, parents of kids over 18 say drugs and alcohol are their greatest challenge; parents of those under 18 call the biggest challenge outside influences.

When judging themselves as parents, mothers are tough to please. More than 70 percent of moms say mothering today is harder than it was 20 or 30 years ago.

While many believe that parenting today is harder than ever before, being a child is not all peaches and cream! Parents are for many, a challenge as well!

Humorist, Erma Bombeck once wrote: My mother phones daily to ask, "Did you just try to reach me?" When I reply no, she adds, "So, if you're not too busy, call me while I'm still alive," . . . and hangs up!


Parents, and Children of any age need to know that when living for the Lord one day at a time, desiring to make “This Day His Day” can grow in their relationships in direct proportion to their understanding, and application of Honoring those in Authority!
 
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. (Exodus 20:12).