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I'm thinking today of a verse in the book of Colossians. Colossians 3 20 says,

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children be obedient to your parents in all things for this is well pleasing to

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the Lord. It's interesting this verse written directly to children seems to

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basically ask the kids to honor and obey their parents not unlike that which is

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in the Ten Commandments. Interestingly enough that which was in the Ten

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Commandments was not given specifically to children it was given to everybody

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especially adults and so we are to honor it and obey our parents our entire lives.

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Of course parents ought to be the kind of parents that make it easy for young

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people and for adults who are their children to honor and obey them. What's

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interesting here is the phrase that says this is well pleasing to the Lord and I

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ask you in your choices in the things that you do daily in your worship

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together with other believers in your service whatever that might be in your

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giving in your faithfulness is this your motivation are you choosing on a daily

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basis day in day out minute by minute to do the things that are pleasing to the

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Lord let me encourage you to do exactly that you are loved by God favor is found

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in God for men he loves us and he favors us and he sent his son in return doesn't

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make sense for us to do things that please him nothing about