But they're my responsibility

3 But they’re my responsibility

Honour your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. (Exodus 20.12)
Each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. (Ephesians 5.33)
Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me. (Mark 9.37)

When we’re struggling with the big decision, it’s very easy to find scriptural passages that we can beat ourselves up with. But that’s a misuse of God’s Word. As Christians, we are indeed called to obey God’s laws and outstrip the Pharisees of old in our righteousness, but when Jesus interpreted those laws to us he insisted that love be our touchstone and benchmark, and asked of us much more than a surface apparent obedience. It’s what’s going on inside us our motives, our heart that matters...