Honoring my parents in the eighties
When did my father invite me to talk to yours?Don’t you take me out? Banquet (although I retired by law) at the age of eighty, I didn’t have to pray for it. There was no doubt about the will of the Lord. Will a child always say? Yes, and honor your father. I told the guests I would say these words at my father’s funeral, but it was a great honor and joy to be able to say them in his presence. I publish them now for others to read when he is still alive and serving in the ministry. May this honor be extended. God has thanked me.
1. When things don’t go as planned, God always makes them work together for good.
In our country, Romans 8. 28 was as important as John 3:16, I learned it from my father’s lips: “We know that everything contributes to the good of those who love God, of those who are called according to his plan. “the basis of my life. God is like that, life is hard. God is sovereign. God is good.
2. We can trust in God
My father never whispered before God’s providence, even when he took my mother at the age of fifty-five. It was a big loss. Sadness has been delayed. But we never doubt God. ” In this God, I trust and will fear nothing. What can man do for me?” (Psalm 56. 11).
3. La people are lost and need to be saved by faith in Jesus.
My father was an evangelist. His absence from my house, on evangelistic journeys, for almost a third of my life, instilled in me a primordial message: hell is real and terrible, and Jesus is a great Savior. Mom always suggested that Dad’s absence was a glorious privilege that we did at the time, never thought of feeling his need to be absent, because I still don’t believe it today.
4. La life is precarious and precious. Don’t think he’ll definitely be alive tomorrow. Don’t waste your life today.
“Men are ordered to die only once, after which comes judgment?(Hebrews 9:27). I heard my father say these words several times as he preached. They were threatening words and, at the same time, good for me. “Do not presume of tomorrow, for you do not know what will bring to light (Proverbs 27. 1). Did Dad know? Many stories of young men who had been killed before they were ready to meet God. The world was a very serious place where we would grow up.
5. A happy heart is like excellent medicine, and Christ is the one who satisfies the heart.
My father was and still is the happiest man I’ve ever met. In a sermon titled “Safe, Safe, and Satisfied,” he said, “He is God. When we trust him, we have God Himself and all that He has. Can we be?” Only people satisfied with the perfect fulness of Christ?As for the love of spiritual things, our house was the happiest I’ve ever known.
6. A believer is a great achiever, not a great forbidden
Were we fundamentalists? And we had our list of forbidden things, but that wasn’t the most important thing, God was the most important thing. And God was worthy of everything.
7. Christian life is supernatural.
Christian life is not possible without the Holy Spirit, who works in response to prayer. In my memory, there is no night when my family didn’t pray together growing up.
8. La doctrine is important, but don’t hit people with that doctrine
Dad repented of the schools and family members who shared what the Bible holds together: talking, right in love?(Ephesians 4. 15). Truth and love. It’s a great union. Keep them together, son.
9. Respect your mother.
If we wanted to see Dad angry, we had to talk to Mom insolently. “Honour your mother? That’s what God commands. And Dad knew the price she had paid for agreeing to travel with him. To the son who uttered a derogatory word!” of this great woman!
I know what God created you for, don’t be someone else
If you’re small, form a team called Hard-to-Peel Potatoes. He never pressured me to be a pastor. Son, seek God’s will over all things and I know what God created you for.
I write with deep affection. Thank you very much, Dad!
Devotion of John Piper’s book Provai e Vede
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