When I was about 13, my dad told me I needed to shower every day. I hated that. And then he told me I had to wear deodorant. He was really getting up in my business. I didn't realize how right he was until I started to smell myself. And I should have listened when he first suggested I learn to shave. I had some pretty wacky hairs coming in on my face. I wouldn't call them whiskers, too soft. I was definitely growing a nasty, creepy fuzz-stache. I knew I had waited too long when someone at school asked me if I was trying to grow a mustache -- from across a crowded hallway. Nothing against teenage mustaches, but I wasn't going for that. I was just afraid I would slice my lip off.
These are just a few examples of simple things that my earthly father had the wisdom to advise me on. He also gave me both orders and advice on much more important matters: dating, driving, eating, exercising, studying. I didn’t always recognize how right my dad was at the time, but my life could have been simpler if I had paid closer attention to the words that came out of his mouth. God set up the cycle of generations so that the older generation has more wisdom and knowledge than the younger. One of the results of the fall of man (you know, when Adam and Eve got snaked by Satan in the Garden of Eden) was that young men and women, when they most need the advice of their elders, will want to reject that advice.
Think about Sampson. That guy was called by God before he was even born to be the leader and judge of all Israel
