God's top ten 5

When I was younger, especially when I was a teenager, I was a bit rebellious. Like most teenagers, I thought that I knew everything and wasn't crazy about following my parent's instructions. I guess you could say that I was pretty disobedient toward them. The fifth commandment says to, "Honor your father and your mother." Interestingly enough Paul, in writing to young Timothy, tells us that one of the signs of the end times is that people will be disobedient to parents. In the letter to the Ephesian church, Paul said it is right to obey your parents. It is godly to obey our parents. God wants us to honor and respect them because they are the authority figures in our life. When we disobey our parents, we are disobeying God. He put them in our lives to raise us and take care of us. Even more than that, honoring them teaches us how to honor God. If we do not obey them, we are breaking one of God's commandments.