Respecting the elderly is listed alongside fearing God.

…Respecting the elderly is listed alongside respecting God❗️.
…Respecting the elderly is also written in the Ten Commandments, "Honor your father and mother."
…"Each one must fear his own father and mother."
Honoring one's father and mother is the first commandment of human relationships.
Therefore, if a child does not cherish their father and mother… they cannot be truly happy…😢
…If we express respecting God in actual life…
…First and foremost, respect your father and mother, and as an extension of that, respect the elderly.
Furthermore, I believe that a concrete action of this is standing before the elderly.
This… represents an attitude of the heart.
…Since it is listed alongside respecting God, it gives the impression that those who do not respect the elderly also do not respect God.
And,
"I am the Lord❗️"

Elders… have endured difficult times and built a peaceful and prosperous society.

However… in recent years, we have suffered the misfortune of being alienated by the younger generation.

We who fear the Lord… should respect our elders.

Shalom 😃

This page archives a Morning Word message shared by Pastor Peter Sunagawa on LINE. The English prose is a translation of the Japanese source message. For Scripture wording, use the BSB link above.