Respecting Authorities

 Respecting Authorities

There's one thing I learned a long time ago.  If you talk bad about other people,  your children are listening.  You may be just venting your anger about another person or viciously scorning them because they are different, but your children are the ones that will go out and harm the person  you slandered.  I witnessed this first hand years ago.  When there had been property damage from the teenagers  that were taking vengeance upon a pastor's family  because the children of the angered family were taught to hate.  Not only did some of those children hate, they still hate today.  So when I raised my children we were not allowed to talk bad about the pastor or His family because I knew that what parents say about authorities can cause them to strike out against that authority.  We taught our children to respect and treat authority with kindness.

I know there's been times I've said things I've regretted.  But once you squeeze the toothpaste out you can't get it back in, so don't let anything out you don't want out.  I have to ask the Lord to help me think before I talk because what you say sometimes comes back to haunt you. 

God wants us to respect authority whether we always agree. 

  I'm reminded of the story of Elisha.

Elisha was a bald man.  He was a mighty man of  God.  But for some reason some children thought it was okay to mock the man of God.  He didn't have a wife or children but when you hurt a pastor's family you hurt the pastor too.

2Kings 2:23

 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.       

God cares about how we treat other people and He doesn't want us mocking other people in a harmful way.  We all need to be careful how we treat others especially in front of children because one day you will see your children act out in a more harmful way.

Susan Y Nikitenko
July 22nd, 2013

 " What you teach in moderation your children will practice in excess".

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