People are made up of different characters, behavior, attitude that has been built as a result of the environment they were born, their culture, the places they have lived and the people they have lived with. These are some of the factors that determine the kind of values a person will posses.
Some children are born by good parents who try to imbibe good moral values in Them, but the environment in which they are in influences them negatively. While some others are born by parents without any positive values may grow up to become morally upright as a result of the people they lived with.
That one virtue that I believe everyone should have, is The fear of God. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
The fear of God goes with other virtue. If you have the fear of God in you, you will love your neighbor, you won't cheat, if you have the fear of God, you won't take what belongs to another, you won't lie, greed will not be found in you, you will be kind, patient and respectful. If you don't have all these virtues, you don't have the fear of God.
I have been hurt so many times by the attitude of people who don't have the fear of God, people who believe that they can get away with anything they do.
One of my husband's friend few years ago wanted to get married.
We did all we could to assist him because it was long due. He had a son from a lover few years ago who is with his mom and since then he never bothered about getting married. Thank God, the wedding ceremony was a success. After the wedding, he was trying to establish his wife so she would not stay at home. I carried the matter on my head and helped search for space where they can open a pharmacy.
We succeeded after so many calls and selecting different spaces. She got a place she liked and they paid. Business started!
I discovered she is either coming to me to report one neighbor or the other, or coming to report her husband to us. Mind you, this guy is a very gentle and nice guy, who could displease himself for his wife, But she was always complaining.
I usually advice her to be patient and all but I think she doesn't like any of it. Few months later the guys mum died. After the burial, her husband told her that his son would come live with them but she disagreed without even considering the fact that her husband can't take his son anywhere else when he is already married and she was aware that he has a son before they got married.
She came to me again telling me she won't have the boy in her home and I told her that she doesn't have a choice. I told her to take care of the boy and be a mother to him. She said that her mother told her not to. I encouraged, begged, did all I could just to make her see reasons why she has to take the child in.
They brought the child in at last but I discovered that she started keeping her distance.
Her neighbor reported how bad She was treating the child.
I wasn't surprised, for her not to want the child around in the first place says a lot but I was not happy about it. The thought of it gave me sleepless nights.
I and my husband visited them one Sunday evening, and I saw for myself. The child had changed so much looking lean and unkept. I spoke to her about it and she gave it to me hot hot
That was the highest form of wickedness for me. She hated him so much. An innocent 12 year old boy. Why such hatred?
She said awful things about me to people just because I warned her to be good to the child and fear God. She also wanted to shift the attention.
I relocated few months later and late last year, I heard that the child died.
They said he fell sick, but I don't believe them. I can't explain the state I fell in when I heard of his death.
Such wickedness wouldn't have been if the fear of God is in the heart of men.
This is my response to Hive learners community weekly featured contents on the topic: The one virtue.
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