I am meeting so many people who are being rejected by their adult children.
The parents are wondering why they are being rejected even though they provided everything for their child and tried to be a good parent.
Of course, no one is the perfect parent, those that think they were could not have been because it would take a perfect person to do that. No one is perfect.
God never said to "honor your parents only if they were perfect." He wouldn't have done that because the arrogant children who expected perfection from their parents are not perfect themselves. One is a hypocrite when they judge their parents as not good enough when that hypocrite couldn't be good enough themselves.
Romans 3:9-11 "9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. We have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. 10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. 11 There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.…"
God's command was for children to honor and love their parents no matter what! There was no command to parents to honor their children. Isn't that interesting!
We are living in times of rampant disrespect for everyone. Children do not honor parents any more than they honor anyone else. Children have been trained by the culture to honor themselves above everyone else. They become enraged when someone doesn't treat them "special. "
Philippians 2:3 "Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem the other better than himself."
We are living in the times of 2 Timothy 3 in which there is constant and rampant love of self and hatred toward anyone else.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
“Difficult (ragingly insane) Times Will Come”
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these."
Respect for authorities of any kind and for parents is nearly gone. There are a few exceptions but mostly its gone. There was a day when it was the exception that children were disrespectful to their parents or other adults, now it has become the norm while the respect for elders is the fringe, the few.
Even those who think they are respectful are not at all compared to generations past. The adult children show arrogance and stubbornness toward parents and other elders.
Even worse is the rebellion and disrespect of small children toward their parents who are frightened to punish them to quell the tide of rebellion in their hearts.
The fear of parents to discipline properly has been largely driven by the cultural thinking of the time.
The following Jewish law required by God was an indication of what God thinks about rebellious stubborn children who will not obey their parents.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
18 “If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,
19 then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.
20 They shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.’
21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear of it and fear."
Notice this child who was taken to the elders to be stoned was an adult child. God did not totally remove the authority of the parents from their children's lives just because they were adults.
We live in a culture now in which the adult children are angry if the parents attempt to interject wisdom into their lives. They mock their parents when they do speak and they even withhold love from them for daring to correct them.
Those who follow the Lord Jesus Christ will be disdained by their own children for daring to believe in the principles of God.
Matthew 10:21
"Brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death,"
God said if a person hates someone it is the same as if they had murdered them. The murder is in their heart even if they never carry out the act of murder.
Many adult children murder their parents through their contempt for them. They don't pick up a weapon to kill them, they kill them over and over again with their toxic mouth and eyes that roll upward in contempt.
This I have to say to the adult children, if you think that you are respectful, please ask God if you truly are, because today's idea of respect is not God's kind of respect.
Ask God and desire to know!!!!
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