Contemplations

HOW OLDER FOLKS ARE TO BE TREATED “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. Ex. 20:12 “‘Each of you must respect your mother and father..." Lev. 19:3a “‘Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord. Lev. 19:32 “Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you. Deut. 5:16 Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding? Job 12:12 It is not only the old who are wise, not only the aged who understand what is right. Job 32:9 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Prov. 1:8 My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. Prov. 6:20 A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him. Prov. 17:25 W

THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools... It is beyond my comprehension how some people can claim there is no God when the evidence is all around them in the tiniest details of every plant, every creature and man himself. It can be found in the atom, in radio waves and all over the place in science. Those who think of themselves as the great minds and geniuses think they are smarter than God, but who of them has created any part of nature? The sky? The universe? Other universes? The unknown? Who can make all things work together such as in the human body or the tilt of the earth?  T

HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER Ex. 20:12 - “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you." Lev. 19:3 - “Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God." Deut. 5:16 “Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you." Prov. 1:8 - "Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching." Prov. 6:20 - "My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching." Prov. 17:25 - "A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to the mother who bore him." Prov. 19:26 - "Whoever robs their father and drives out their mother is a child who brings shame and disgrace." Ex. 21:17 , Lev. 29:9 - "Anyone who curses their father or mo