Yesterday, the Lord's messenger Dr Tow shared something that strike a chord in me. He said that before you want to learn what is brotherly love you have to do two things. First of all, you have to love God. If you cannot love God, you don't know what is true love. After that, you have to love your parents. He shared something on showing filial piety to our own parents.
He shared that he once asked an old lady how often does her child visited her. The old lady reply that it is only once a month. When I heard that, I was quite sad. After the children got married, they tend to forget their parents. They are too busy with their work, their own stuffs, their own children and forget that who had brought them up since young. Do we want to wait until our parents are no longer around then we start to regret that we had not done enough for them?
He also shared that if he is her children, he will visit her every week. Which I think is reasonable and that we should. What can be so busy that we forget about our parents who had brought us up? He also shared that filial piety is practical. We have to do something that is different. For example, in the past we don't sweep the floor, we do it out of love for them now. We help our parents to clean up the house. In the past we don't wash dishes, now we do it voluntarily. We do not need our parents to tell us what to do then we do. I am convicted in my heart to I want to do something for my parents. Since they are still unbelievers, I have to show forth the love of Christ in my life. Truly, it is not easy to take up your own cross daily to follow Christ. We have to denied ourselves daily and seek to do God's Will for us in our lives.
Thank God for his message to me. A change of attitude is necessary and will make a difference in your testimony!
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