Making a home and making children S30e185

There is no doubt that for most, the pathway to happiness, and the reward being bestowed by God is to get married; to have a quiver full of children.

Should I have children?: generally yes yes yes.

How many children should I have? A quiver full.

If you were to prepare for militarily tough times ahead, how many arrows would you prepare with?

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Making a home and making children S30e185

45 Stick around if you’re wondering about Family and children; Kindness of God 

127 A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. 

1    Unless the Lord builds the house, 

those who build it labor in vain. 

       Unless the Lord watches over the city, 

the watchman stays awake in vain. 

2    It is in vain that you rise up early

and go late to rest, 

       eating the bread of anxious toil; 

for he gives to his beloved sleep. 

3    Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord,

the fruit of the womb a reward.

4    Like arrows in the hand of a warrior

are the children of one’s youth.

5    Blessed is the man 

who fills his quiver with them! 

       He shall not be put to shame

when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

Talk about children:

Children are a heritage FROM THE LORD

Making life is sole prerogative of God. It is His alone.

Whole psalm 127about how He wishes it organized in the strength of a family, with the Lord building that house, extending a heritage

He doesn’t OWE the planet children. Children are the over and above

Principle here: if you put your hands toward raising a family, you will be rewarded in this family.  Family is supposed to be, a net blessing.

Here is another blessing of children that young parents don’t have the time or the energy to consider: when you are NOT young parents, when you are OLD, these children are a protection.

       They go from being protected to being protectors of the family

       They go from being protected BY you to being protectors OF YOU

The arrow of children starts in the one’s YOUTH, but does not stop there.

Interesting as we are talking about the blessing of family, the topic of war; of military defense is mentioned.

When you meet your enemy in the gate

Fortified cities had point of vulnerability: the gate. Moving parts; complexity, different construction necessary to give access. 

Metaphor and not metaphor

When you meet your enemy at the gate, when you are at a place of increased vulnerability, perhaps when YOU are being attacked, the children you have raised are now an asset of protection******.

They are like arrows that go forth to help you, defend you, defend themselves. The locked arms of the generations is a bond that is stronger than the crossed arms of one generation alone.

In fact, having the “arrows available” is all that is needed to keep the enemies OUTSIDE, and to keep the interaction one of SPEAKING at the gate rather than FIGHTING at the gate.

I so admire young families.

I so admire the courage of young families. They are doing a nobel, God-ordained, God-rewarded, future-enhancing, self protecting, generationally enhancing, fruit-making activity.

I envy the blessing of young families. 3            Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, 

the fruit of the womb a reward. 

There is no doubt that for most, the pathway to happiness, and the rewardbeing bestowed by God is; to be most blessed is: to get married; to have a quiver full of children.

Should I have children: generally yes yes yes.

How many children should I have? A quiver full.

This kindness is an essential quality of God.  You will need the kindness of God or you already have needed it.

God is Great does amazing things: forgives sin, makes creation, holds it all together. He does all this spiritual heavy lifting .

But God is great and gracious: He possesses the ability that we directly and absolutely require, and He is gracious: in that He actually extends it toward us. His KINDNESS is what connects His GREATNESS to us.

Note with me Ps 145: 17   The Lord is righteous in all his ways 

and kind in all his works.

His KINDNESS is what connects He GREATNESS to us.

       He HAS to be. Without it we’d be permanently lost.

       Without kindness, God’s greatness would be inaccessible

       Without God’s Kindness, God’s greatness would be OUT OF REACH

       Without God’s bending-down to me in kindness, I could not bow down to Him in belief

His KINDNESS is what connects He GREATNESS to us.

Yes, God is Great. He is unsearchably great. 

Without His KINDNESS, that greatness stands aloof from me.

       I need the Majesty and the MERCY

       I need the GREATNESS and the grace

God’s KINDNESS connects us to the Capabilities of God

God’s Kindness connects us to the Clout of God

God’s Kindness connects the orphan to a great family

God’s KINDNESS connects the wanderer to the WONDERS of God

God’s kindness connects the sinner to the Savior

KINDNESS is what connects His GREATNESS to us. Thank you!