Open Heaven Daily Devotional 4 Nov 2024
TOPIC: Learn From The Elders
MEMORISE
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
Job 12:12
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: John 9-10
Open Heaven Daily Devotional 4 Nov 2024 MESSAGE
Elderly people carry valuable gems of wisdom.
No matter how educated you are, some lessons cannot be learnt in classrooms; they are only taught in the ‘classroom of life’ and are learned by experience.
Even though I have a PhD, I have learnt to defer to the wisdom of the elders from time to time.
This is why you will always hear me say, “The elders have a saying,” because there are valuable things that I have learnt from the elders that all of my formal education did not give me.
Every week, I would visit him to ask questions, and he would teach me valuable lessons.
I was also privileged to learn from Pa S.G Elton. Every two weeks, I would travel to llesha to sit at his feet.
He taught me many things, even though I didn’t agree with some of them initially because I felt that they were incorrect.
However, as I grew older, I began to realise that he was correct.
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One of the things he taught me was that I should always remember that I am not God, irrespective of the level of the anointing that I operate in.
He also taught me that God does whatever He pleases, and all that I have to do is to take my burdens to Him in prayer and go to bed.
No matter how big the problem is, once I have prayed, I go to sleep.
Beloved, even if your parents and the elders around you are not as educated or sophisticated as you are, listen to them.
Whatever things you disagree with or that seem hard for you to understand, keep them in your memory regardless.
Do not joke with the moments you have to spend with elders, whether they are related to you or not. Tell them to teach you some of the things they know and do.
Some natural remedies to sicknesses died with some elders because the generation after them did not learn about them when they had the opportunity.
Some important principles of life have also been lost in this manner.
Learn all you can from the elderly ones, especially the Christian elders that you still have around you, before they go to be with the Lord.
Key Point
Spend quality time with the elders around you; there is a lot of wisdom to gain from them.
HYMN Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
1 Guide me, O my great Redeemer,
pilgrim through this barren land;
I am weak, but you are mighty;
hold me with your powerful hand.
Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
feed me now and evermore,
feed me now and evermore.
2 Open now the crystal fountain,
where the healing waters flow.
Let the fire and cloudy pillar
lead me all my journey through.
Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,
ever be my strength and shield,
ever be my strength and shield.
3 When I tread the verge of Jordan,
bid my anxious fears subside.
Death of death, and hell’s Destruction,
land me safe on Canaan’s side.
Songs of praises, songs of praises
I will ever sing to you,
I will ever sing to you.
