Proverbs 23:22 When God Says...I Say, AMEN!

When God Says...

“Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.” (Proverbs 23:22 NKJV)

Parents are ordained by God in His creative design. Nobody wants for a son and a daughter to succeed in life more than their dad doing his best in God's grace. He, the God of all creations, who formed each and everyone walking on this earth, understands it. Every loving parents' task is to pass on the things they learned about living to their children and their children's children.

The eternal counsel of heaven flows to the child through the father and the mother who bear them. Honoring and listening to them is the key to a blessed life (Ephesians 6:1-3). Any disrespect we display on them is treason against the design of God's benevolence and sovereignty. It inhibits the flow of the fullness of His divine purpose for us. Listening to our father and honoring our mother is God's simple way of connecting us to the resources of heaven for a life well lived for the glory of Him, our Creator. So that when this journey is over, we find our way into the presence of our Heavenly Father.

As God's children by grace through faith in Christ Jesus, it is fitting for us to reflect on these words, as the Psalmist declares: “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you.” (Psalm 139:13-18 ESV)

And I say, AMEN!

Daily reflections by:
F. A. Frias
PFC Ministries

(When God says... I say, AMEN! is a provocative reflection of the Lord's holy Word. It intends to challenge every seeker of truth to dig deep into the core of the Word of Life to point every being to Christ Jesus - the author and finisher of our faith, and to draw revelations for change, for nourishment and for strength of every soul.)

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