Ideas For Honouring Parents

There are hundreds ways to show respect and honour your parent. However, you should remember that honour is not without love. Honour includes love and care and you can show your love by caring for your parents a lot and showing them that they are special to you and that you grateful to them bringing you up. Given below are some ways to show your parent that you respect them and are grateful to them.

 - Pray for them, ask the Lord to bless them with a happy and healthy life. At old age parents need solace, more than anything else.
 - Show your unhappiness about your disobedience in past towards your parent. They will be happy to see you doings this, and it makes them feel you are a true person.
 - Do not hold grudge against them despite their unpleasing behaviour towards you.
 - Always remember their birthdays and other special occasions. Send gift to them on those occasions.
 - Be caring and loving and show them that they are in safe hands, by supporting them where there is need.
 - If your parents are not living with you, call them on a regular basis and shower your love and care on phone.
 - If you are unemployed and do not have financial support and are living in your parents home, show your gratitude to them. Do not take advantage of them.
Honouring parents is the only command in the scripture that promises long live as a reward, Eph 6:1-3. Those who honour their parents are blessed. In contrast, those with a depraved mind and those who exhibit ungodliness in the last days are characterized by disobedience to parents ( Romans 1:30; 2timothy 3:2).
 The value of honouring parents is so important in the sight of God that He included it in the Ten commandments, Exo 20:12. You can not out grow God's command to honour parents even if you may no longer be directly under their authority. Treat them the way you would reverentially approach your heaven father. Prayer and fasting will not save you, for the divine principle spelt it out clearly that only those that honour their parents will enjoy their life on earth.
The word honour demands a right action. Jesus, reminded the Pharisees of the commandment to honour their father and mother. They obeyed the letters of the law, but added their traditions that essentially overruled it. While they honoured in words, their actions proved their real motives, Matt 15:3-9. Honour is more than lip service.