wow! honor

My mind is continually blown away as I listen to this sermon series how much content is present in these verses. I have grown up with these commandments, had them memorized, but the scripture is alive and the spirit is moving through it in new ways for me as I am listening and reading! Super good stuff from DJ!

Alrighty...so what am I thinking after that message on the 5th commandment? Let's see if we can break this down in words.

At one point, my mind started to envision what the future will look like. My Dad has always joked that his one request of his children is that we will take him to Disneyland and push him around the park when he is in a wheelchair and can no longer walk at "Wisenor theme park speed." This and anything else that I do for my Dad, I don't know if I could come close to serving and loving him the same way that he has loved me. I am honestly tearing up as I write this because I feel like I have taken my dad and mom for granted at times. It is crazy to think about how much they have done for me. They put me on a boat for the first time at 5 months old. They encouraged me in the faith and helped me to go on houseboats with Sonshine. My dad would teach me math every day after school in sixth grade. It isn't till recently and especially tonight that I realize just how special that relationship is. I hear my buddies here at school talk about the father son relationship that wasn't necessarily present for them and I just have to cherish and honor the relationship that I have. I just hope that I can continue and grow in the way that I honor my parents and love them and that I am able to model many ways that they raised me and loved me in the future and in that somehow do right by my parents.

The second thing that I thought was crazy was actually discussed earlier in the sermon, but the idea of their being two physical tablets. The vertical and the horizontal tablet with this commandment being the intersection of the two. At the end when DJ referenced the last verse of the OT "he will turn the hearts of the parents towards their children and the hearts of the children towards the parents." All I could think about was the way that Jesus became flesh and God in order to provide a way for our hearts to be reset on our parents.

I am still processing this and can't wait to read what y'all think about the sermon. I kinda just word splatted some stream of consciousness on the page. hope it makes some kind of sense. Love you all! sorry I missed blogging about the sermon last week...I'll get some more thoughts down if something comes to mind, but I kinda just sat with the idea that resting is a way to show God that He is our primary focus.