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Honouring Parents: Growing in Faith
Explore the profound wisdom of Proverbs 23:25 and understand the joy Christian pare… (visit YouTube for more)
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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.
