Do you honor your parents [5th commandment]? How?

[WilliamBo]

Deuteronomy 5:16, the 5th of the 10 commandments, says-

''Honor (respect, obey, care for) your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that your days [on the earth] may be prolonged and so that it may go well with you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.'' [AMP]

I have noticed a big connection in the way I act towards my blood family and the quality of life. Has anyone else noticed this? I don't mean my relationship with my family, because the relationship often depends on them, but I'm talking about strictly MY way of treating them. Scriptures like ''let the dead bury their own dead'', when Jesus advised one of His disciples to not go to his fathers funeral, has confused me into not having relationship with my family for a long time... but I feel like our blood family is a very important aspect to our faith. Both my parents are athiests pretty much and so it gets confusing. And it also says in the NT that family will turn on you for following Jesus... but I feel like God is showing and teach me to start honoring and loving all my family deeply. Anyone else experienced this with their blood family?

Do you honor your parents? Are they believers like you? What do you do to honor them?

 

[Dave G.]

My parents are long gone, they passed decades ago. But I sure could have done a better job of honoring them. Too much self in me, especially back then. Hmmm, my father passed 20 years ago this coming thanksgiving season and my mother 30 years ago. Doesn't seem possible.

 

[Rescued One]

I don't know the answer, but I tried to not offend them. My mother is in her nineties; she adored her father, not so much her mother. Most of my friends and some relatives had a favorite parent.

So what constitutes honor?

 

[Kit Sigmon]

My mom has been widowed since 1969 when my father died, at the
time I was about five years of age... I have been honoring my mom
for a long time, not perfect as I've had to repent many times over
the years.

I value her, listen/follow her instruction...mom started noticing her
own declining health and memory issues and she asked me to assume
CPOA in 2006.
I'd been looking after her since I was pre-teen and the responsibilities
grew as the years went by.

She's in full care at a nursing home due to needing round the clock care.
I appointed my middle brother to do daily checks on her, he's been doing
that for over two years now.
I call her on the phone, send her gifts, greeting cards, visit etc.