By Olubunmi Adebayo
*Please permit me to ask you this : “to what extent do you respect the elders?”*
*We must all realize that giving respect to elders, is a tradition that is fast disappearing from our generation today.*
*Several young ones don’t believe there is any elder to be respected.*
*Gone are the days that the young ones honour their elders and obey them as appropriate.*
*Truth be told, those who honour their elders are simply sowing a worthy seed into their own future.*
*Today, people have forgotten that even the Words of God expressly put it this way :*
*1 Timothy 5: [1]”Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father….”*
*Our young ones must always be told that :*
*They could be gifted.*
*They could be brilliant.*
*They could be knowledgeable.*
*Indeed they could be destined for something great in the near future.*
*But one sure thing that will facilitate the actualisation of these in their lives is the respect they give to their elders.*
*No wonder the Word of God says :*
*Exodus 20: [12] Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.*
*Honoring our elders is a commandment from God with a divine promise attached to it :*
*Exo 20: [12] ………that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.*
*Never, ever forget that those who made it a duty to honour the elders, end up living to become elders with honour themselves.*
*Also, it is a common thing today for the younger ones NOT to defer in any way to their elders.*
*It is a regular practice too for some young ones NOT to greet elderly people around them.*
*It has become normal for the young ones of today to work towards outsmarting and outshining their leaders.*
*Most young people hardly show due courtesies to their elders anymore.*
*The wise youth respects the elders, the foolish ones act otherwise.*
*Know it that the reason why some young ones don’t go far today is because of their disrespect for the elders across their journey of life.*
*A young man or woman that will achieve success which will be enduring, must run away from disparaging, dishonoring, disrespecting and disgracing his or her elders.*
*It is the way to go. It is the way to the top.*
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©️ Olubunmi S Adebayo.
