BBD 05.13.17 How to Live Life Long and Well (Classic) Happy Mother's Day!!

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Classic from 2004

Burning Bush Devotional

13 May 2017

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!

How to
Live Life Long and Well

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of
his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him,
will not heed them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and
bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. And they
shall say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and
rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' Then
all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put
away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear. - Deuteronomy
21:18-21 NKJV.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your
father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may
be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” - Ephesians 1:1-2 NKJV.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to
the Lord. - Colossians 3:20 NKJV.

In the Daily Oklahoman, a small article caught my
attention. The title of the article was, “Prisoners reflect on their teenage
decisions.” Two men who were convicted of murder when they were 16 years
old expressed their thoughts. One man Davin
Douma, who is now 37 years old, said this: “Murder is a crime of passion. You act without thinking.
And I definitely acted without thinking of the consequences.” Douma’s victim made homosexual advances toward him. Douma says of
himself, “Mostly, I just see myself as a dumb kid
who made a lot of bad decisions.” He is
eligible for parole next year.

Johnathan Williams never expected to spend decades of
time in prison but does know why it happened. Williams says that
it happened, “Cause I didn’t listen to my mother. I was
hard-headed. When you’re young like that, you don’t realize your actions weigh
on you for the rest of your life.”
Williams will be eligible for parole in 2010.

One of the worst decisions that children and young people
can make is to decide that they know better than their parents do. The title of
the television show, “Father Knows Best”, is filled with truth. A young
person who decides to rebel against their parents is only asking for trouble.
They may not commit murder, but it is in the realm of possibility for many.
Johnathan Williams said that he never expected to end up in prison. That could
be the statement of most who are incarcerated in their teenage years, or even
those going to prison later.

Prison, I think we can agree, is something that nearly
all of us want to avoid including young people. Isn’t it worth the time to
consider for a moment how to avoid spending decades of your life in such a
place? High on the list of the things that a young person can do to avoid
incarceration is obeying their parents. By not being rebellious and instead
being obedient to your parents (Unless they require you to do something that is
obviously immoral.) you gain the support of God Himself. You gain the blessing
of God on your life by being an obedient child. The command to obey your
parents comes with a promise, “that it may
be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”

Take a good long look at the statements and lives of
Williams and Douma and those like them. If only they had obeyed their parents.
If only they had listened to reason. If they had, their victims would be alive
and they could have been leading productive, successful, and happy lives all
the years they have spent behind bars.

If you are a young person, I would encourage you to give
it a try - a real try. Ask God to help you to be obedient to your parents. Ask
God to lead you, direct you, and to give you wisdom; and see if things are
not going better for you in only a few weeks of time. Try it. It could very
well change your life, and the lives of many others for all eternity.

Copyright © 2004 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
19 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brad, Damon D.
& wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: www.paypal.me/EdWrather

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Classic from 2004

Burning Bush Devotional

13 May 2017

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!

How to
Live Life Long and Well

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of
his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have chastened him,
will not heed them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and
bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. And they
shall say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and
rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' Then
all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put
away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear. - Deuteronomy
21:18-21 NKJV.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honor your
father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: “that it may
be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” - Ephesians 1:1-2 NKJV.

Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well pleasing to
the Lord. - Colossians 3:20 NKJV.

In the Daily Oklahoman, a small article caught my
attention. The title of the article was, “Prisoners reflect on their teenage
decisions.” Two men who were convicted of murder when they were 16 years
old expressed their thoughts. One man Davin
Douma, who is now 37 years old, said this: “Murder is a crime of passion. You act without thinking.
And I definitely acted without thinking of the consequences.” Douma’s victim made homosexual advances toward him. Douma says of
himself, “Mostly, I just see myself as a dumb kid
who made a lot of bad decisions.” He is
eligible for parole next year.

Johnathan Williams never expected to spend decades of
time in prison but does know why it happened. Williams says that
it happened, “Cause I didn’t listen to my mother. I was
hard-headed. When you’re young like that, you don’t realize your actions weigh
on you for the rest of your life.”
Williams will be eligible for parole in 2010.

One of the worst decisions that children and young people
can make is to decide that they know better than their parents do. The title of
the television show, “Father Knows Best”, is filled with truth. A young
person who decides to rebel against their parents is only asking for trouble.
They may not commit murder, but it is in the realm of possibility for many.
Johnathan Williams said that he never expected to end up in prison. That could
be the statement of most who are incarcerated in their teenage years, or even
those going to prison later.

Prison, I think we can agree, is something that nearly
all of us want to avoid including young people. Isn’t it worth the time to
consider for a moment how to avoid spending decades of your life in such a
place? High on the list of the things that a young person can do to avoid
incarceration is obeying their parents. By not being rebellious and instead
being obedient to your parents (Unless they require you to do something that is
obviously immoral.) you gain the support of God Himself. You gain the blessing
of God on your life by being an obedient child. The command to obey your
parents comes with a promise, “that it may
be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”

Take a good long look at the statements and lives of
Williams and Douma and those like them. If only they had obeyed their parents.
If only they had listened to reason. If they had, their victims would be alive
and they could have been leading productive, successful, and happy lives all
the years they have spent behind bars.

If you are a young person, I would encourage you to give
it a try - a real try. Ask God to help you to be obedient to your parents. Ask
God to lead you, direct you, and to give you wisdom; and see if things are
not going better for you in only a few weeks of time. Try it. It could very
well change your life, and the lives of many others for all eternity.

Copyright © 2004 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
19 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brad, Damon D.
& wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Lexi McCalip, Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: http://www.paypal.me/EdWrather

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

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constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by
sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
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