If you know me personally, you understand what an important role my grandmother has had in my walk with Christ. I fully believe that through my wildest years it was her prayers that covered me through and brought me to this side of life. I looked at her last night and I saw something more than my Grandma. I saw a women of God with wisdom to share. I’ve always ran to her when I needed someone to help me pray through a situation or when I needed advice on how to react in a Christ-like manor. She’s spent so much time in God’s word and so much time in her “prayer closet” alone with God that her relationship with Him goes deeper than I can even imagine.

Last night while spending time with her I found myself seeking that wisdom, questioning how I could one day reach that level. It takes discipline and obedience, it also takes a willingness to stay humble and listen to the advice of our elders. It seems it’s getting easier for the younger generations to discredit what our elders are saying to us and that scares me. The older generations may not completely understand the same struggles we deal with, but instead they understand another set of struggles. They’ve dealt with and passed issues we couldn’t imagine having to deal with. Things like cooking on a wood stove, no television, dealing with the heat of living down south with no air conditioning, washing clothes by hand, not having enough food in the house and having to truly rely on God to provide a way, praying over crops for rain because they didn’t have irrigation, the list could truly go for days. I want to seek this kind of wisdom, not the wisdom of convenience but the wisdom of how to deal with difficult situations while trusting in God to provide and protect you through it. Instead of allowing our easy lives be the distractions they are, allow them to be a blessing so that now we don’t have to focus all of our time hand washing clothes and instead take that time to talk to God one on one and draw closer to Him, so that He can draw closer to us.

Seek the wisdom of the elders in your life. I urge you not to let their time on earth go without learning something from them. Time is short and it’s never guaranteed. The book of Proverbs is an example of the wisdom we should be seeking in our elders today.