Following Christ English

‌"Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.” (Exodus 20:12) Notice, this command begins with a focus on obedience to our own parents—“obey your father and your mother”—but it concludes with a view to the larger context of the whole of human society—“that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.” From birth, our holy and loving God commands that we learn the importance of respecting, submitting to, and obeying the authorities he has placed over us. For our own good, he commands that we learn how to humbly and willingly receive instruction, correction, discipline, and guidance from those whom he has set in charge.  If we only take a moment to consider a handful of words which describe people who have refused to learn these holy, God-given lessons, the staggering importance of this command becomes more clear: ‌Prideful. Obstinate. Domineering. Narcissistic. Controlling. Ma

Note..:- Please read this blog till the ending. May the Today Bible verses help you build a spiritual relationship with God. You read this verse and understand what God is telling you and what God wants from you. The Pattern in the Hebrew Bible . Noah The pattern of God providing salvation for his people through the waters reappears with the chaotic waters of the flood narrative in Genesis 6-8. The flood is presented as a state of “de-creation.” The springs of the cosmic deep water (Heb. tehom) split (Heb. baqa), and the windows of the heavens are opened, reversing days two and three of creation  (In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day, all the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the windows of heaven were opened–Genesis 7:11). Every being is wiped away from the face of the earth, undoing all the inhabitants from days five and six of creation  (All living creatures who lived on the land