Begin Here – The Fifth Commandment

Begin Here

Prayer is the starting-place for honoring others.

Read Exodus 20:12

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.”

Review each of the meditations from the past week. Today would be a good day to focus on praying for those you are called to honor – parents, employers, civil magistrates, church leaders, family members, neighbors, friends, people far and near. Certainly we honor others by bringing them before the Lord in prayers of thanksgiving and intercession. It’s a great way to begin focusing more consistently on others, so that you might honor them in everyday ways.

Pray

Thank You, Lord, for the many people You have put in my life. Teach me to honor them day by day. Enable me to show Your steadfast love and faithfulness to them – even those who scorn You and are not particularly friendly to me. Give me a ready mind, that I might remember to honor others, and abundant grace, to discover new ways of doing so. And let me now grow weary in well-doing.

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“In the Gates” is a devotional series on the Law of God by Rev. T.M. Moore

T. M. Moore is editor of the Worldview Church. He serves as dean of the Centurions Program of the Wilberforce Forum and principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition. He is the author or editor of twenty books, and has contributed chapters to four others. His essays, reviews, articles, papers, and poetry have appeared in dozens of national and international journals, and on a wide range of websites. His most recent books are The Ailbe Psalter and The Ground for Christian Ethics (Waxed Tablet).

Scripture quotations in this article are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, (c) copyright 2001,2007 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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