We Need More Arrows
Christians & the Kingdom
The question of having children, fertility, birth control, which I fear, too few Christians have really wrestled over, is not about combing through Scripture to find all the evidence for or against allowing God to be sovereign over the womb. It’s not about concluding that “God gives us the wisdom to decide” and then breathing a sigh of relief. It’s not even about splitting hairs over choosing if and when to prevent children (sometimes that’s necessary and right).
Children–which are really just people, are so much bigger than that.
“And why did He make them one? Because He desires godly offspring.” (Malachi 2:15, ESV)
WHY? Because “like arrows in the hand of a mighty warrior, so are the children of one’s youth.” (Psalm 127:4, ESV)
WHY? Because “they shall contend (speak) with the enemies in the gates.” (Psalm 127:5, ESV) (Which doesn’t denote hand-to-hand combat in a war-like setting, but a contending on an intellectual level and in a living life way, so there’s no need for feeling creepy about the use of the word.)
WHY? Because “thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:3, ESV)
And that commandment was not a personal one. It was spoken to a nation, and still is…