Honoring Parents, Building Godly Families, Honors God – (Proverbs 30:17)

Daily Bible Study
God set up the family unit which consist of father, mother and children as the basic unit of society. The family is the most basic building block of any civilization, and it's the families which make up the heart of any society. Moreover, every nation's strength lies in the strength of its families. In God's economy godly parents raise godly children, who then repeat the cycle with their own children. However, we live in a world of darkness, a fallen world greatly influenced by the one the Apostle Paul calls the "prince of the power of the air" who is Satan. And this darkness is constantly at work destroying the family, why? Because Satan knows if he can destroy the family, he can destroy any society.

If Satan can destroy the family, then he can destroy a nation's faith in God and bring a country to ruin from the inside out. He can do this because broken families turn people's hearts away from God and away from His word, the Bible. And thereby diminish the chances of someone hearing the Gospel message of salvation through faith alone in Christ alone. And we see that occurring in our world today. First, the family is destroyed, which in turn pushes God out of society because people do not want to be reminded of God's law. This in turn destroys civil order and promotes further rebellion. And in this passage Agur is not only pronouncing a curse on those who aid in the destruction of the family. But he is also, in dramatic fashion, illustrating the destruction that awaits any nation who abandons God and destroys the family, which are the basic building blocks of its own society.