We need to be the kind of parents who encourage obedience through being honorable. It is difficult to call upon our children to honor us when we are not honorable. The problems we are facing in our society today are the result of a decline of moral decency. This decline began in the home. If parents expect children to have high moral values, they must have high moral values.
Honor is earned as parents show concern when their children have problems.
Honor is earned when we deal with our children s problems honorably. Dealing with our children s problems without embittering them toward us, or the church makes us honorable. Honored is earned as those in authority accept responsibility for those they have authority over. The only way true spiritual leaders can accept responsibility for those they lead is by submitting themselves to the needs of those in submission to them. The biggest problem with authority in the church and in the home is that those in authority do not hold themselves responsible to those they have authority over.