Before we enter this decade, the Almighty has prepared us for the great assignment of building homes for Him; Godly Homes in an ungodly world as He dictates it. And He also revealed to us a lot of happenings from the other kingdom and how to overcome the strange current of deceptions throughout the days of our sujourn here on the earth.
There are godly principles guiding having a godly homes we are sent to help build on earth, and I've seen some points going against that godly principles in this post which I must speak against by the grace of the Almighty.
Although the writer might not take note because nobody is wiser than the illumination or revelation that have not been revealed by the Almighty no matter how stronger in faith you claim to be. Now let's go to real business. I will be using the real life experience God caused us; my family and many of my children in the Lord to pass through, that made us what He intends us to be today to be able to handle the assignment He committed into our hands.
Judah's Post Points itemized for proper response:
1. The present Generation does not get into full mental development until we are 30. Because young men and women who should be taking the lead in their worlds have been convinced against taking responsibility for their lives and making their own decisions by parents who believe that saying "Daddy Oyoyo" and "Mummy I'm hungry" at age 25 is a sign that the family is bonded.
This point gives me an hint to warn all the children of God worldwide to desist from writing one-sidedly, be widen in your spiritual senses that God is greater than your assumption. You know most time when you're writing, it is what is happening around your world that use to take priority of your write up and it is very bad. This happened to Prophet Elijah when he was given God a feedback on situation on ground in his days, he assumed that he was the only prophet remained that has not bow for another God. And all of you know the story, how God fooled him that he was wrong. The statement 'the present Generation does not get into full mental development until they are 30' is too biased and erroneous. If this is the state of the writer and some people around him, he is right. But instead of saying 'some people in this generation' you now put all men in this generation under the scope of your assumption and personal experience, which made you to be wrong and all those who believe this statement with you. No, not all and I can prove it to you that it's not even majority that fall under this. And you can do your research as well.
I've been left alone to my own thoughts and decision before I reached teen age due to my way of upbringing, which exempt me from this statement and the host of others that might later come out to say the same. It was since this unripe age I've been controlling my world with that little or no knowledge of what life is all about. I control all my younger ones which are up to six. If not the Almighty that saved me, empowered and endowed me with wisdom from above. Where would I be today? I should have become a waste due to lack of parental guidance this write up is kicking against. To the Glory of God today, I can be boast of some of them that are calling me their father today because of the way a left alone and unripe little teenage boy brought them up!
The writer talked about young men and women who should be taking the lead in their worlds have been convinced against taking responsibility for their lives and making their own decisions by parents. The question now is: who convinced them against taken responsibility for their lives? If the parents warn and tell them not to live wayward life and they refused and impregnate a lady, do you mean parents are the one who will take responsibility of the whole situation? This statement and the other two stressed out below are really against parental guidance in some circles. No wonder a young man cried out after reading that write up that who will help me say this to my mummy's hearing?
PGTM WORLD will not be part of any thing that is challenging any parental authority whether that authority is right or wrong. We are called out to teach people in love not to post any challenge to the way they administrate their homes but to show them godly way to get it done. Because most time in the homes all of us called an ungodly homes, the Almighty use to show His supremacy by leading the hearts of parents to guide their children against the danger ahead. What can you say about that? Presently, I have a living testimony of this point with me. There is a young lady with me currently that escaped death just because her grandma was frowned at the decision she took. Despite the fact that she is yet to be born again. The Lord used her.
Let me make myself more clearer here that write up like this is very dangerous to so many people on social media because it will mislead immature believers and Christians that are not fully ripe for marriage, not by age but by intelligence quotient. Should they leave their children unguided when they eventually married so that they will not resemble the kind of parent you're talking about? Have you forgotten that Eli died mysteriously just because he left his children unguided? He left them to their thoughts and ways of life and they died pre mature death!
Do you even realize that when you're saying mummy I am very hungry at age 25 it is not that the family is bonded as the writer put it but that you've wasted some important opportunities when you're teenagers. Responsible parents should have warned you to face your studies when you're very young but you chose your own way of playing around during the school hours and at the end of your secondary school life you fail woefully, many of your mates passed and move on and until around 22 years, you're yet to gain admission or you just secured one, why wouldn't you be saying Daddy oyoyoyo or mummy I am feeling hungry at age 25? Provided you listened to their parental guidance when you're very young and passed out of higher institution at age 20 with first Class degree and you were retained to be a lecturer at your Alma Matta, you mean your dad and mum will come and take decision for you in your place of work, abi? When you have made them proud by listening to their injunctions that made you become what they dreamt about you, they must have understood that, long time ago, that you're not disobedience and always following their guidance which made you to achieve that height. And that what they've incurcated into you that made you great in life, you will not do away with them but rather teach your children to do the same.
2. How can a mind develop in an environment where it is trained to believe that taking responsibility is rebellion and making personal decisions is rejecting Parental Authority?
This point also send me a signal to warn all young men and women worldwide to be careful of rebellion against parental guidance. They are guiding you because of your own life they want you to use wisely not because of their own life.
No reasonable parents will trained you to believe taking responsibility or personal decision is against parental authority. So clean your mind of that errors, it's the devil that is dictating that to you, though, I don't know what is really happening in the life of the writer the time he's writing this, but the truth of the matter is just what I told you now. Personally to me I respect the decision of any of my children that is not against the will of God concerning their life and I believe every godly and responsible parents are doing likewise.
What exactly is the role of parents? I am telling all youths reading this that if you are not careful in this area that you're just trespassing you will be a failure to your own very generation, I mean you will fail your children and many of them will refuse to serve your God.
Our individual upbringing is different, that's why the writer suppose to be diplomatic and define his write up very well. The role of the parents are to train up their children the way of the Lord and to guide them always not to go astray from the route.
There is a unique assignment for every family that God want them to fulfill for raising them which must be known to the parents before they start giving birth to babies. Are these applicable to your family? Do your parents know God let alone of getting to know the assignment given to them by God?
So, if your parents know all these and they're following every bit of God's revelation for their family as they bringing you up, and now that you're becoming man you're challenging their guidance towards achievement God's plan for you in the space of the family commonwealth or goals, you must know that you're out of your senses as children and the spirit of rebellion has come over you maybe through your carelessness and the stuff like this one you're using to feed yourselves or hearing from preachers that doesn't understand how godly family works.
But if your family is not like that, you still have no authority to challenge your parent's parental control because no matter how, what you do, is what you will receive back. That's why you need prayers and counselling on how to relate well with your parents who you think they haven't know God.
I have daughters and sons who should have taken their own personal decision in the area of marriage and be eating their thumb in regrets by now, if not parental guidance! Especially if you have spirit filled parents, you must be careful in following this type of right up, if you don't want to regret in life because the spirit of the prophet bow for themselves. If you're spirit filled and your parents are the same, why is your responsibility and decision always goes against their? It means you need to check your life and examine it very well to know if the devil has not taken control of your emotions.
God's Spirit is not divided, it's one and united. So let's be guided. Too much of freedom leads to bondage.
3. So we remain in our caves of bondage, getting spoon fed by Loving Parents who will prefer to have us under their control than see us Grow up and influence our worlds.
How can the home of a loving parents becomes Cave of Bondage, if the devil has not gotten involved?
How can a loving parents prefer to have you under their contract? What will they gain form it? Probably, they struggle to send you to university because of their love for you so that you can be great in life, so what will be the benefits of the money spent on you when they don't permit you to grow and influence your world again?
When I was meditating seriously on this third point what I received from God shocked me. I received that any young people who began to act against their loving parents after reading this man's write up will be damned. And I said, 'why'. The Lord responded that if your parents are loving parents, they will give you the best their own parents never gave them even when things are not going on smoothly they will make sure you become somebody. When there are nothing to eat at home, they will make sure you eat and now you grew up and began to call the loving arms shown to you 'Caves of Bondage'. Haven't you cursed yourself already?
Infact, this point highly go against so many Scripture written clearly in the pages of the Bible because it instills disobedient spirit into the children against their loving parents, and that's why I am still wondering about what really got wrong with the writer when writing this or what is actually in his mind, because the Bible says, "letter kills".
So let's examine some:
Firstly, the Bible describe disobedience to parents as one of the signs of the perilous times:
2 Timothy 3:1-2
[1]This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
[2]For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Colossians 3:20 NLT
Children, always obey your parents, for this pleases the Lord.
So, does the writer wants children to be doing what is not pleasing the Lord through this kind of write up?
Ephesians 6:1-4 NLT
Children, obey your parents because you belong to the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.
“Honor your father and mother.” This is the first commandment with a promise:
If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.”
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
Verse 3 stressed the reason why youths are dying prematurely this days, the Bible says If you honor your father and mother, “things will go well for you, and you will have a long life on the earth.” so you know what that means, if you do otherwise!
So, this stressed out vividly the duty of parents to their children which you too will become one day: Bringing children up with the discipline and instructions that comes from the Lord. If your parents doesn't have instructions from the Lord to bring you up with, you need a spiritual parents not to go astray in life. But you that already gotten godly parents but started to do wayward because of this write up from Judah Olorunmaiye, it will be better for you to go and ask for their forgiveness before bad things begin to happen to you!
If you know the writer of the three points explained here how I wish you tagged him under this post, maybe he may have anything to say to the whole Christian community about the reason behind this kind of write up that is considered to be highly misleading on the area of Christian Ethics and Values.
Shalom!
'Sina EzekiEL Ayoade,
Agbofinro Olodumare,
Watchman, PGTM World