Four Ways that a Day to Honor Father’s Is Beneficial

We just celebrated Father’s Day, but choosing to honor our fathers and mothers is one of the more overlooked of the Ten Commandments. In a sense, father and mother gave us life. To respect their rules (because they know more than we do and they want us to do well in life) and honor what they say, is part of our happiness at home and later in life as it says in the 5^th Commandment, Exod 20:12.

The 6^th Commandment says not to kill, and if we honor father and mother in our habits of eating, we may be healthy and live longer than if we indulge our appetites to eat what we want whenever we want. Indulgence in eating and drinking brings disease and early death.

Honoring the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, we see that “Nature cures; not the physician…let your food be your medicine.” Honoring that wisdom enables us to live longer without medicine.

The Father of Modern Medicine, William Osler, said one of the first duties of the physician is to teach people not to use medicine! This is even more true now; http://LeadingCauseOfDeathPrescriptionDrugs.com

The 7^th Commandment protects our home and happiness in spite of media that’s now pornographic and entices us to lust if we watch it. We do better to avoid food for the eyes or mind that invites us to think about sex. A woman who uses physical attraction to get a relationship is cheap, not wise.

A man may play at love to get sex while a woman plays at sex to get love, and the woman loses most of the time, often with pregnancy when love is gone.

1^st century marriages were contracted when a man and his son visited another man and his daughter. The men talked about price while the young couple may have been talking for the first time. They probably talked about everything. Money, work, kids, sex, food, religion, attitudes. If their talks were mutually agreeable, the young man offered her a cup of grape juice saying, This is my blood, I would shed it for you. If she accepted it and drank of the cup, they were officially engaged. She would sew and get ready and he would return in a year for the wedding after building a room on his dad’s house.

That practice led to stability of the home for thousands of years until Hollywood and TV came along. Dating, kissing, physical affection is misleading. Everyone enjoys that, but too often, a young couple that thinks they love each other have little else in common and trouble after marriage begins soon.

Our first example was how we could live longer and enjoy health better without pharmaceuticals if we honored our mothers to eat our vegetables, etc.

The 2^nd way we live better is the moral law that protects marriage and the home the offers greater happiness as we age and are faithful to the one who has blessed us so much through life.

The 3^rd way we live better by honoring father and mother is to see that commandment in a spiritual sense to honor God as our heavenly Father and in a secondary sense, to all rightful authority, whether it be our teachers, preachers or government. The more we honor the Ten Commandments, the less we need government to tell us what to do, and that was the wisdom of the Constitution—life the Ten Commandments, it was about self-government.

The 4^th way is social. The first three dimensions are like rings in a triangle that overlap in the a central area, the social dimension. If we have done well in the first three, we do better and have more to contribute in the social arena. But if we don’t feel well, or we’ve made a mess of our home and have run from God, we are lacking in what we can contribute to others.

So instead of a Father’s Day once a year, let’s remember the commandment to honor all rightful authority every day of our lives—we will then live longer, happier, better lives…

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