229: Honoring Our Parents As Adult Children // Victim Mindset, Unbelieving Parents, Boundaries

Today, we will be talking about whether or not we should continue honoring our parents as adults and what that looks like in a practical way. The Bible speaks so explicitly about heeding your father’s instruction and how beneficial it is to do that. It will serve you well if you heed their instruction.

Honor doesn’t imply obedience, agreement or alignment/belief in conviction. The parental role is an honorable role. As Christians, we think it is right to speak well and honor our parents. What does it look like to honor? It really comes to fruit in how you speak about and address people in those positions. It doesn’t mean you are heeding all of their instructions and obeying everything they say, but you are honoring the position.

This is something that we want to continue guarding our hearts on. Hopefully as we grow in our faith, that instinct to make myself the victim and do that psychoanalysis of how we saw it portrayed in our home growing up won’t be there. We need to look towards Christ, the author and finisher of our faith. Thank God that He is the perfect Father. Thank God that His strength is made perfect in our weakness. We will have holes in our parenting, but we want to point our children towards the perfect Father.

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