Honor Your Parent

Mark 7:10 KJV Jesus said,
"Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother..."

I was referring to the "little things" and it was on my mind. Somehow I found an article such as honoring your parents. For me I had parents while many others may not. However, I want to share something I was really impressed what Jesus said to the Pharisees.

In Jesus' day, He had something to say to the Pharisees who found creative ways to avoid family duties (Mark 7:9-13). It was a little thing that bothered Jesus enough to speak up against what the Pharisees had done.

In those days, the parents did not receive Social Security like we do now. So the parents depend on their children to support their needs when they could no longer work for their earnings.

Just because they happened to be Pharisees and they realized they had the power to do what they want. Actually, they became greedy and didn't want to spend so much money on their aging parents so they came up with an idea by dedicating their material possessions to God (declaring them as Corban) rather than using their assets or money to provide for their parents. This was called "Tradition of men" used as an excuse not to honor their parents. They claimed that their laws were more powerful than God's Law. Their tradition had violated (broke) the commandment to honor their father and their mother. Because of this, the Pharisees became wealthy.

There is another scripture to prove that Jesus has exposed them as greedy Pharisees. It is found in Matt. 23:14; Mark 12:40 and Luke 20:47. The Pharisees were known to "devour widows' houses" which means they "took the widows' houses" and sold them to get the money for themselves. The widows lost everything they own when their husbands died and they had no law to protect themselves.

From Luke 18:2-5 you may understand why Jesus told a story of a widow who came to judge for protection against the Pharisees or creditors (adversary) from taking her house. It takes a judge to protect the widow since she lost her husband.

What the Pharisees had done to their parents and to the widows bothered Jesus enough to expose them to public. He let the people know how He felt about that.

Jesus really cares so just trust Him today!

Dorothy