day no. 16,905: honor your father and mother and let your neighbor do the same

Matthew 19:19

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

This one verse captures the vision of Christendom, which is each nation honoring their fathers and letting their neighboring nations do the same. This is every man respecting his father and loving and respecting other men enough to allow them he same courtesy. Once we have begun to thank God for where He placed us, we can begin to thank Him for where He has placed our neighbors.

A man cannot honor the fathers and mothers of others until he honors his own.

He cannot extend grace to another nation until he faces and forgives his own.

Nations are connected by their mutual respect for their neighbor’s respect for their own fathers and mothers. Each nation understands the other's desire to maintain what has been handed down to them.

Acts 17:26

God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.

From one man God has made men into nations. Each man is made in the image of God like their father Adam and each one has brothers with respective house rules. 

"There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, 'I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away.' To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: 'If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.'"  — G.K. Chesterton

You cannot appreciate the house rules of another home until you appreciate the rules of the house in which you grew up.

"A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants." — Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay (aka T.B. Macaulay)

Until you understand what motivated your people, you cannot weigh the motives of other people.

Genesis 35:11

And God said to him, “I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come from your own body."

Kings and kingdoms can get along if they all bow before God. Two kingdoms can have borders and brotherhood. The world does not need to become one nation in order to be unified, it simply needs its nations to begin by honoring the fathers they have in order to respect the ones they don't. We love our neighbor by letting them honor their own fathers.

"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors." —  Edmund Burke

The Kingdom will have come and God's will been done when men honor their fathers and mothers and leave their neighbors to do the same.