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Should We Bring Kids into this Dark World? Ep 322

June 02, 2025 • Rock Solid Families • Season 7 • Episode 322

Should We Have Kids in a Dark World?
Big Questions:
Is it wise or faithful to bring children into a world filled with suffering, evil, and uncertainty?

Am I making life decisions from faith or fear?

“Many Christians today are wrestling with fear, disillusionment, and sorrow over the state of the world.”

Common concerns: evil, school shootings, cultural decline, financial uncertainty, environmental decay

Affirm that this is a valid and deeply emotional question.

2. Why Are People Afraid to Have Children Today?
List cultural and global concerns

Reflect on emotional and spiritual reasons:

Fear of suffering

Responsibility for shaping a soul

Hopelessness about the future

Scripture Reflection:
Ecclesiastes 1:2, 14 – “Meaningless! Everything is meaningless... I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”

Even in Scripture, people wrestled with despair over a broken world.

3. God’s View of Children in a Broken World
A. Children Are a Blessing
Psalm 127:3–5 – “Children are a heritage from the Lord... Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them.”

God calls children a gift, not a burden.

B. God Brings Life in Darkness
Genesis 1:28 – “Be fruitful and multiply...” (original calling)

God didn’t rescind this even after the Fall.

Jeremiah 29:4–7 – While in exile in Babylon, God tells Israel to build homes, plant gardens, marry, and “increase in number.”

Even in dark times, God calls His people to live fruitfully.

C. Children as Light-Bearers
Philippians 2:15 – “...that you may become blameless and pure, children of God... in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.”

Our children can be raised to reflect light, not just survive the darkness.

4. God Has Not Given Us a Spirit of Fear
2 Timothy 1:7 – “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind.”

Fear is not a trustworthy counselor—faith is.

God doesn’t promise ease, but He promises presence.

5. What About Wisdom & Discernment?
It’s not a sin to delay or decide against having children, if done in prayer and obedience, not fear or despair.

Romans 14:23 – “...everything that does not come from faith is sin.”

Decisions should be rooted in peace and trust in God's will for your life.

6. Legacy & Mission in Dark Times
Children are disciples in our homes.

Parenting is missionary work.

Malachi 2:15 – “Has not the one God made you? You belong to him in body and spirit. And what does the one God seek? Godly offspring.”

God desires the next generation to know Him.

7. Closing Encouragement
Question for you to reflect on as we close…..How might God want to use future generations to redeem the brokenness in our world today?
We don’t bring children into the world because the world is good—
We bring them into the world because God is good.

Whether you raise spiritual children, foster, adopt, or give birth—your legacy in Christ is secure when you walk in faith.

Scripture:
Isaiah 60:1–2 – “Arise, shine, for your light has come... darkness covers the earth... but the Lord rises upon you.”

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