CHILDREN ARE A BLESSING FROM GOD, NOT A BURDEN. You cannot read through even the first book of the Old Testament without noticing that the Bible is very pro-child in stark contrast to much of American society.
Daniel Doriani writes: ‘The American family is shrinking like a cheap cotton shirt. In a day of small families, people-watchers can enjoy the reaction when a couple announces, “We are pregnant again.” If they herald a second child, faces beam approval and arms extend affection. The display shows that we no longer take the multiple-child family for granted. A second child is an event. It creates another ideal family: mother, father and two children. But the body language changes for subsequent pregnancies. In my circles, body language suggests that three children are a sign of faith; four, a sign of bravura; five, extravagance; and six, lunacy.’
The Bible presents a very different picture. The high view of children and the family presented in Psalm 127 should also be the mindset of believers today, no matter what our culture thinks.
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Pastor Phil Layton is committed to expository preaching, the sufficiency of Scripture for ministry and all of life, the doctrines of grace, spreading a passion for a high view of God and His Word, and pursuing a ministry that is Scripture-saturated, Christ-centered,...