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Honouring Our Spiritual Parents
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If you have a difficult relationship with your mother or father, then while we meditate on this verse, I encourage you to think instead of the people who are your spiritual parents or who mentor you in the faith. Proverbs 23 verse 25. Let your father and mother be glad. Let her who bore you rejoice.
Now, one of the things in a functional parent relationship, one of the things that the parents want for their children is for them to grow. And particularly for Christian parents, we want our children to grow in the knowledge of God and in relationship with Jesus.
And so we then in the role of children, can make these people glad by showing them that’s what we’re doing. By pressing deeper into God. By learning more about who he is, by ensuring that we are seeking to keep in step with the Holy Spirit, letting him guide our way.
Because we have received from those who have guided, parented, and mentored us, we have a gentle duty, don’t we to return to them the satisfaction that comes from seeing that we’ve learned, from seeing that we’ve grown, from seeing that we are finding our way as mature adult Christians. And so the encouragement in this Proverb is helpful for us as a reminder that one of our purposes, one of our joyful duties can be to give pleasure back to those who have poured so much into us.
Thank you, Lord God, that although we don’t all have good relationships with natural parents, you still ensure that there are those around us who can lead us on in the faith. And we thank you for those people, whether they be biological mothers and fathers or others in the faith. Please help us then, Lord, to grow and to please them and beyond that to please you, our Eternal Father. Amen.
