HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ACCORDING TO INSPIRED SCRIPTURES

 


According to inspired scriptures, human development within a family can be categorised into three main stages, which can have sub-stages - if well researched.

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” (1 Corinthians 13:11)

Parents and guardians should know how to relate with family members in their various stages of life. being Childhood, Youth and Maturity (Adulthood).

The following are the main stages:

(a)    CHILDHOOD

This stage requires delicate and highly strategic parenting and nurturing. Children need care and support from their parents and guardians. Every child should be well prepared in order to graduate into the Youth category.

“And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.” (Ruth 4:16) 

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6) 

“Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.” (Psalm 131:2) 

“Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.” (Isaiah 49:15) 

“Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.” (Exodus 22:22) 

“And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.” (Genesis 21:8)

 

From Childhood stage, a family member graduates to Youth stage where they should be trained slowly as they grow towards adulthood.

 

“This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; every man child among you shall be circumcised.” (Genesis 17:10) 

“And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee? And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.” (Exodus 2:6-8) 

 

(b)    YOUTH

The youth are supposed to be educated and trained for them to graduate into maturity (adulthood). The youth experience the puberty stage, for which they have to be prepared through awareness for self-care and management. These are the teenagers.

“Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.” (Ecclesiastes 12:1) 

“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?” (Jeremiah 3:4)

“If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;… These are the statutes, which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between the father and his daughter, being yet in her youth in her father's house.” (Numbers 30:3, 16) 

“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.” (1 Timothy 4:12) 

“The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?” (Matthew 19:20) 

“Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul hath not been polluted: for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of itself, or is torn in pieces; neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth.” (Ezekiel 4:14) 

 

(c)    MATURITY

When the youth/teenagers have matured, they should be graduated in readiness for leaving the family to form their own families or to live their own lives. One that leaves a family should be mature and well-educated, trained and equipped.

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24)

The leaving should be celebrated and the person leaving should be given best wishes and advice from parents/ guardians and other family members during their celebration.

“It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.” (Lamentations 3:27)

“And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him: for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.” (1 Samuel 17:33) 

 

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