Happy Mother’s Day - Honour Your Mom, and You’ll Live Long!

Honour Your Mom and Dad and You’ll Live Long! Today is Mother’s Day. It is a day when we express our gratitude to all our mothers and mother figures for the sacrifices they have made for us to be who we are today. In Jeremiah 35, the Recabites were told by their father Jonadab not take wine or plant vineyards or even build houses. Instead their forefather told them to always live in tents. He promised them that if they did so, they would live long in the land they were given, where they were nomads. God sent Prophet Jeremiah to this family and told Jeremiah to give them wine. They of course refused and instead told Jeremiah of the command from their forefather, which they had obeyed. God used their obedience in an analogy to contrast it with the disobedience of the people of Judah and Jerusalem: “Will you not learn a lesson and obey my words?’ declares the Lord. Jonadab son of Recab ordered his sons not to drink wine and this command has been kept…But I have spoken to you aga