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Respect and obedience: training our children

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`Y ou don't have to always understand something to respect it."   Respect and obedience are qualities {characteristics} that I tell my children they will have to posses be they young or old. Sometimes when they are feeling "unjustly" treated they will murmur to a sibling, "I'm not going to be like that with my kids, or that's why I will be glad when I become a lady" {or man as in the case of my little eight-year old boy}. The world we live in today is littered with consequences of the young and old not holding God, others and themselves in high regard—lacking respect. "A nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young". ~ Deuteronomy 28:50, NASB This is the world we live in today.  Social programs are not the answer, though they help, they are not the solution. The love, fear and reverence of God first is what our nation must get back to .  The reverence of God  is what's needed....