I hear a troubling narrative in media, growing louder by the moment. It’s shocking and disturbing when I see a version of this same narrative in God’s people.
Population control is a buzz word. I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the elite leftists of our country want to eliminate a large portion of people for what they say is climate control.
Can you even imagine?
The fallacy of climate change is pervasive. It’s been taught so heavily in schools that our kids are growing up just believing it. We as parents, must teach truth preemptively. We can’t just wait until a topic comes up. We should be ahead of everything.
Sex? We should talk about it with our kids way before others have that opportunity.
Marriage? We must let talking about healthy marriage and commitment long before our kids begin to be interested in the opposite sex.
Finances? We must ingrain healthy financial practices in our children long before any college or credit card comes to tempt them.
God? We must raise our children up deliberately. Teaching them Who God really is and what He’s like way before their woke youth leader or school teacher begins to mold them.
Children? We should be proud to have big families. Whatever family size you choose, we must begin to celebrate family again. Our children should feel like they are a blessing to our lives, not an inconvenience.
God is more than enough. At all times and in all things. When I was first married and began to have kids, I would worry about having enough when we had more kids. Voices around us said that you can’t have many kids because it’s too expensive. Or it’s irresponsible.
Those are lies.
God loves family, and what I really learned was that each time our family grew God would expand everything else. Our heart’s capacity to love. Our finances to support that baby. Our homes to hold our family. Everything else grew in accordance with our family growing. Isn’t that wonderful?!
It’s the same type of lie I was told when in a job during college. Some of the people at the hotel where I was night auditor would tell me they didn’t want a raise because that might put them in a different tax bracket and they were afraid it would lead to them making less. I knew that was a lie. I remember thinking, “If that’s the case then how is anyone wealthy?” It was then that I decided I wouldn’t allow myself to be afraid of financial increase. It’s the same with family increase. The world mocks us for having a “larger” family, which is insane to me because we only have four kids.
It’s time for God’s people to fall in love with family again. Sure, there are sacrifices, but life with those sacrifices is much more rewarding than trying to buffer from them in our selfishness. Character is developed largely within our family dynamics.
I want to have life in my years on earth…and having spent it fully, then walk into God’s arms in heaven satisfied and grateful…don’t you?
Remember the woman from 2 Kings. She was the widow of a member of the group of prophets. Creditors has been threatening to take her two sons as slaves because of unpaid debt…that is, until the God of more than enough showed up.
God of the increase. He most often shows up when we think there is no more increase to be found, not before. He comes when there is a need.
“What can I do to help you?” Elisah asked. “Tell me, what do you have in the house?” “Nothing at all, except a flask of olive oil,” she replied . And Elisha said, “Borrow as many empty jars as you can from your friends and neighbors. Then go into your house with your sons and shut the door behind you. Pour olive oil from your flask into the jars, setting each one aside when it is filled.” So, she did as she was told. Her sons kept bringing jars to her, and she filled one after another. Soon every container was full to the brim! “Bring me another jar,” she said to one of her sons. “There aren’t any more!” he told her. And then the olive oil stopped flowing. When she told the man of God what had happened, he said to her, “Now sell the olive oil and pay your debts, and you and your sons can live on what is left over. 2 Kings 4:2-7
365 Days in the Presence 