“Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise).” Ephesians "6":2
When I was a young man at college, God showed me I was to go on my vacation to an island which was infested with pirates to preach the gospel. I visited the island and found the people willing, and after much difficulty, I rented a house there. All this time, my parents had said nothing, and then five days before I was to go, they suddenly stepped in and forbade it! What was I to do? The will of God was burning in my heart, but my parents, God-fearing folk, said “No.” I was still a student. I sought light from God and felt it right to submit to my parents, though deeply wounded.<br/><br/>In God’s time, the way to that island was opened, and His will that souls should be won there came wonderfully to pass. But this experience had taught me an important lesson. If a thing is written in the Word of God, we dare not cast it aside—we have to submit.