The Structure of a Family

Proverb 1:8
"My son, hear the instruction of your father and forsake not the law of your mother"

Message
My son = This words are signal of attention, God is calling our attention to listen to Him. It also recognized us of who we are, we are His son as he lives as our father.

Hear the instruction your father = on this verse, the task of the father is to give instruction, to lead his son to what is about to do and how to do it. In reality, our biological father is in charge of providing the direction in our life(in a case we don't know the direction). God is asking us to hear the instruction of our father for they will serve as our direction, our path to where we are going.

Forsake not the law of your mother = the task of the mother is to give the do's and don't's of our life. they are in charge of correcting us in case of something wrong is in our life. The mother is putting the boundaries in our life. to support the instructions of the father.

The father is looking forward (what is your direction) and the mother is looking at the present (what is wrong and what is right at the moment) the two works together to build you up to become the person that God want to be.

This is the structure of the family that sets upon us.

Instruction
To the son: Listen your parents
To the father: Guide your son by giving instruction
To the mother: Warn your son by reminding of the law and its consequences

Application
As a son, I am expecting instructions from my father and law from my mother, but I don't have a father anymore, So right now, I am relying on my spiritual father who gives instruction in my life. The law of my mother: this is something that I should be aware of. she should be reminding me of the consequences of the things that I am doing.

Prayer
Our God in heaven thank you for the learning that you are teaching me right now, I know you want to listen to my spiritual father and obey the law of my mother. i'm lifting up all my thanksgiving for this words that you have given me. I pray that you may continually open my eyes in recognizing the instructions and law that I am about to receive from my spiritual father and biological mother. I asked this in the name of Jesus. Amen