COMPULSORY DUTY

July 16, 2018

Matthew 15:5 

“But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God’ ”…Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.”

I am called to honor my father and my mother, and to seek to provide for them and to support them. This is a commandment of God, and these cannot be revoked or overridden by my personal preferences. God has called me to obey Him, and this obedience includes assisting my parents. If I am honestly unable to provide for them, then that situation is different, but where I am able to, and I choose not to because I would rather give those resources to God, then I am disobeying God in my bid to please God. Human traditions and excuses cannot negate God’s explicit command.

Give to God what is due God, but don’t give to God what is due to your parents. God will not endorse that you have willfully chosen not to provide for your parents because of the needs of the ministry. If, however, because of your calling into the ministry you currently lack the resources to provide for your parents, then seek God earnestly for the miracle of provision because it is God’s will and command that you provide for your aged parents. Nothing revokes this precept.

“Father, please help me always put this as a priority in my financial and budgetary planning. I know that I have to provide for my family and because it is Your command, by Your gracious hand, this I will do, in Jesus name. Amen.”

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