"Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. Honor your father and mother which is the first commandment with a promise, that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth..."
Since my own growing up days, I'd thought that "the promise" was "long life" but if you refocus, you'll see emphasis on enjoyment of it, "so that you may enjoy long life on the earth". It struck me that if a child, or even an adult is not obeying and not honoring then they're likely to get themselves into difficulties and in turn, they won't be happy; thus no enjoyment of life.
Seventy, eighty, ninety, or even one hundred years is a long time to not to go well and not to be happy.
Here's a song that is a lovely old piece that has timeless thoughts and was written by John H. Sammis...Trust and Obey...
~ERC 2017~
Originally written December 1995; adapted for blog 2017
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