WHERE ARE OUR PARENTS?

  

Many years ago I used to hear an announcer ask this question on the radio, “It’s ten o’clock at night. Do you know where your children are?” I don’t know who sponsors this nightly service, but I think it is publicly paid to remind parents to look for their children when they are not home by a certain time. Some parents do not care when their children return home. It’s too bad that I don’t hear messages like that on the radio anymore. Don’t we care anymore when our children return home at night? Don’t we care anymore about our children? I do not know.

And I wish some rich donor would give money to local radio stations and ask a similar question on the radio, “Do we know where our parents are”? Many Christian children do not know where their poor elderly parents are, or how they are doing. They rarely call them, visit them, or help them. Many parents are poor, and they don’t have enough money to buy what they need each day. Are Christian children abandoning their parents?

One of God's commandments says, "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you." Exodus 20:12.

I know a Christian minister of a large church in Jakarta who can speak in tongue, but rarely speaks to his poor elderly mother and asks if needs rice, food, and daily necessities. He just bought a new house for himself, wife, and his kid.

Now I understand why Christians want to abolish God's commandments, so they can abandon their poor elderly mother without violating God's commandments.