Today's Favorite Verse: Jeremiah 35:18-19

Today's Favorite Verse: Jeremiah 35:18-19

"And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever."

At first I thought of the fifth commandment.

"Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee."

(Exodus 20:12)

Blessings come from keeping the commandments and honoring our parents.

"..the Lord told the Prophet Jeremiah to go into the house of certain men called Rechabites and to invite them into the house of the Lord and give them wine to drink. When wine was placed before them, however, they refused to drink because their father had counseled them never to drink wine  "Thus have we obeyed the voice of . . . our father in all that he hath charged us" they said. After these young men had reaffirmed their steadfastness in following the counsel of their father, the Lord through his prophet pronounced upon them a special blessing. He decreed that members of this family and their seed would always be numbered among the righteous."

(Bishop John V. Vandenberg, "Follow Counsel", Oct 1964 General Conference) 

Day 2939