Teenager Working for Grandma

Metamora Patter

My Granddaughter 'Becca is here now clealing our house. She comes over every week and makes sure things are in tip-top shape for me and her Grandpa. I believe that it is the responsibility of the older women to teach the younger women "How To Do" certain things. That is what the Apostle Paul told Titus in the letter he wrote to him. I thought it was odd when I first read the letter because of what Paul told Titus the older women were to teach to the young girls. But now I think it is one of the wisest things taught in the New Testament.

Titus 2:1-5

1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
3 The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
4 That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
(KJV)

Look what they are to teach the young women. Plus they are to teach them HOW TO DO THESE:

1. To be sober: CALM COOL AND COLLECTED

2. To love their husbands......now that is a lesson that is ongoing.

3. To love their children.....and that is not an easy task either.

4. To be discreet......don't tell every thing you know (cover your families' nakedness)

5. To be chaste.....this is a word that you have to teach its meaning before you can teach how to be..

6. To be keepers at home..not home makers..but home KEEPERS..HANG ON TO YOUR MAN AND KIDS

7. To be good......we know that there is none good but God....so this is a good lesson to learn

8. To be obedient to own husband......don't think this is a slam-dunk lesson..but it is a good one.

A person who decides to follow Jesus after living a hard life in this world has a lot or re-programing to do. And I do not mean the "OPRAH SCHOOL FOR YOUNG WOMEN." A little girl gets a head start if her Mom and Grandmother teach her these things at an early age.....

But that is another post for another day.

Point of this post is that we older women have a grave responsibility in training and teaching the young ladies in our families to be lovely and loving people...especially to their husbands and children.