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A couple questions regarding Honoring Thy Parents...
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I know the Bible says to honor thy mother and father. My parents are divorced and my father is now remarried. While I still love him very much, and treat him the same as I always have, in my heart I have trouble feeling real respect for him. It's the same with his new wife. I act respectful towards her, but do not really feel it in my heart. Is this wrong, and if so, how can I fix it? Any help would be appreciated...
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The feeling in your heart may be the fact that you disapprove of what they may have done (divorce). Showing outward form of love is most important. So you should always show respect to him as a person, and of course as your Father, but that doesn't mean you approve of what they have done.
More than likely those hidden feelings of animosity are stemming from what led to the actual divorce. Whatever the feelings or the reasons, you need to ask God to help you deal with those feelings. Ask God to love them through you.
Your mother and father are now living their own seperate lives, and though divorce is a difficult thing to deal with, you have to try and understand why some adults do what they do. Place your focus on God. Their desicion to divorce was their desicion, but don't let it affect your walk with the Lord.
Try to put it behind you and see them as people who aren't perfect. We may think our parents don't make mistakes, but they do. Just pray and ask God to help you deal with it as well as help you bring God glory with your actions. Just know the divorce was not your fault and it wasn't because of you.
Sometimes people stop trying and fall out of love, but I'm sure each one loves you very much, and I am sure your new dad's wife feels alot of stress trying to figure out ways on how she can help you see her as a friend and not as a foe.