Parents Day Message

Elder Dorai Manikam
18-06-2017

Ephesians 6:1-4Amplified Bible (AMP)
Family Relationships

6 Children, obey your parents in the Lord [that is, accept their guidance and discipline as His representatives], for this is right [for obedience teaches wisdom and self-discipline]. 2 Honor[esteem, value as precious] your father and your mother [and be respectful to them]—this is the first commandment with a promise— 3 so that it may be well with you, and that you may have a long life on the earth.

4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger [do not exasperate them to the point of resentment with demands that are trivial or unreasonable or humiliating or abusive; nor by showing favoritism or indifference to any of them], but bring them up [tenderly, with lovingkindness] in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Parents are storm riders.

Parents become family builders, community builders and nation builders.

Parents give us identity.

In the bible, identity is given by geography (Jesus of Nazareth), by vocation (Jesus the carpenter), and by name (Jesus, son of Joseph and Mary).

We walk like our parents.

Parents are faith builders/directors. A Christian's life is not to be lived individually.

Parents are destiny shapers.

Our God is also Father. Accept God as Father through His Son, Jesus Christ.