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GOD REJOICES OVER YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN!
God loves to rejoice over His children. Zephaniah 3:17 tell us that God rejoices over us with joy. He even sings over us. Isn’t that wonderful?
Deuteronomy 28:63 and 30:9 tell us that God rejoices over us for GOOD. He loves to do good things to us. The interesting thing is that the first good thing He wants to do for us is to multiply us. To give us children. He rejoices to multiply us. Who thinks that’s good???
Well, if we don’t, we are opposite to God, aren’t we?
Because this is God’s heart, we as parents should also rejoice over our children. Not complain about them but rejoice over them. And when our children grow up and get married, we’ll rejoice when God gives them children.
Isn’t it sad that so many parents warn their children NOT to have children when they get married, but to wait a few years. I think many of you have been reticent to tell your parents that you are pregnant again, knowing they would be negative about it.
Isn’t that strange? Parents should REJOICE that God is blessing their children with a new precious life. That they are building the family dynasty. This is for their GOOD. There is no greater blessing than a precious new life, filled with potential, given to the parents to prepare for God’s destiny for them in this life and for the eternal world.
We turn over to Psalm 107:41-43 and read the response those who are “wise” have toward having children, not only one or two, but “like a flock”: “He maketh him families like a flock. The righteous shall see it, and REJOICE: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth. Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.”
Let’s be a rejoicing people in the goodness of the Lord.
Love from Nancy Campbell
Painting: Frances Tipton Hunter (1896 – 1957, American) | I AM A CHILD.
