Serve God from When Young-Prof, Sabitu Olagoke

General lack of been scripture compliance in worshipping God in almost every religion is responsible for adherents' inability to commune with God for timely intervention in the affairs of man, this is because, in every religion, there is a water bed level for God and Godliness, where the divine endowment is inexhaustible.

Unfortunately, adherents of religion treat the process of worship on the surface level of mere social or material level of religion's existence. This is why it is advisable to teach our children from the cradle, the essence of a Godly life and the need to live by the spirit to be rightly led into the process of making the right decisions.

It is therefore essential that we serve God right from the period of puberty and adolescence, at our young age for us to be endowed with a high degree of religiosity.

Ecclesiastes 11: 9-10 admonishes all of us on this, '' 9 Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

10 Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.''

In this direction, the Holy Quran 91: 7-10, shows all the best way to live through the need for body preservation from sins and crimes and soul purification from devilish thought processes. ''By the Soul and the proportion and order given to eat; and its inspiration as its wrong and its right;-truly succeeds that purifies it and it fails that corrupts it.''

Young people must be given the right orientation that spans empowerment essence and correct behavioral checks as demonstrated by a holy man presented and regarded as an epitome of good parenting in the Holy Quran 31: 17-19, ''O my son establish what is just and forbid what is wrong: and bear with patient constancy whatever betides thee; for this is the firmness of purpose in the conduct of affairs and swells not thy cheek for pride at men. Nor walk in insolence through the heart: for Allah loveth not any arrogant boaster. And be moderate in thy pace and lower thy voice; for the harshest of sands, without doubt, is the brain of the ass.''

Using the quoted scriptures to assess every home and parenting method makes yesterday to be easy to manage, peaceful and prosperous because of the environment of discipline and ethical guides at home and at the places of work. However, today the same measure of assessment would show our society to be a caricature of itself because of the attitudinal lapses into human frivolities and waywardness as a result of the present climate of constitutional indiscipline and lack of zero tolerance to corruption.

There is, therefore, the need for all of us to uphold the principle and culture of good parenting, whereby parents play the role model to prevent the children, most especially, the young ones in the adolescent stages from swimming in moral rot for us to be able to process them into the objective goal of making them be reliable and dependable future leaders. No jot of the words of God must be trivialized for religion to be potent in giving our young ones fertile growth of knowledge, wisdom, and the power of the discerning mind to be able to make the right decisions at the right time.