Honoring our parents at Easter seems so very easy. The word itself bring on the feeling of gathering together and giving to family and friends. But ;lingering still is the remembrance of the death of Jesus. Faithfully, we turn our thoughts to that human sacrifice in the hopes of keeping our family together until we are called to heaven ourselves.
But do we keep the faith of Easter all during the remaining year? Most will try to say yes. Let's think about what happens when we lose the feeling of Easter.
Mark 7:11-13
But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, 'Sorry, I can't help you. For I have vowed to give to God what I would have given to you.' 12. In this way, you let them disregard their needy parents. 13. And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others."
We live in a sordid world today. Crime, violence, favoritism, and neglect abound in the so called "hollowed halls of justice'. Tall tale stories of drug and alcohol, sexual immorality, personal force or physical violence, coupled with wandering child abuse in explicit details all for financial and personal gains, shew! Child porn labeled 'help the children'. Yet even more poorly today many self-made temples are now apart of an infrastructure our state and federal governments agencies, such as, Child Protective Services, Child Welfare, and the Agency for Exploited and Missing Children, and Planned Parenthood are detailing and publishing materials depicting ravishes of childhood encounters with the insanity in the behavior and the insanity of the victim, but this is not all of it.
Inside of religious welfare agencies, such as, kid soup kitchens and family emergency shelters homing the referred to "compassionate ministries centers" buy, sell, equally publish and capitalize from the mind-pressed notions that exploitation of the flesh will prevail against Satan and his demons...American children are on the alter just as Abraham was with his own son Isaac...Abraham demanding that God Almighty stop the madness through special message sent from heaven about the slaughter!
Why? "Mark 7:12...In this way, you let them disregard their needy parents. 13. And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition....""
Faithlessness, whoredom, and sloth was all that Jesus faced before His ministry too was taken over by those who stole away the fortunes of their parents. Tradition can be a deadly disease. And from the time of Jesus' death to our ascension into heaven, the world is doomed to live divided against each other.
Luke 12:49-51
"I have come to set the world on fire, and I wish it were already burning! 50. I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished. 51. Do you think I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I have come to divide people against each other! 52. From now on families will be split apart, three in favor of me, and two against—or two in favor and three against. 53. 'Father will be divided against son and son against father; mother against daughter and daughter against mother; and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.'"
Easter is the season of giving, loving, and caring for Jesus. It can be a long, slow walk. Most times we only find the disease of tradition. One very good thing that Jesus proclaimed in the Gospels is the fifth commandment, "Honor your mother and father." Just a Jesus, the Son returned to His One Father in heaven, so can we. Remember who it is that you are living and walking for--The One Father. Don't take the poor parent's worth. As scripture says, "What you create on earth, is what you create in heaven."
Happy Easter and a Blessed Pentecost!
You inspired the Books of the Kings, with them we learn just who they are and just what they did to You, Great God in all the heavens. You told us that the kings will take everything away from You, and so they did. It is the season of Easter that should remind us of the greatest loss. for now we have only heaven, but You are there. Amen.
