Why do couples wait? It has only been a week or so. Not only did I meet a woman who never wants children, but I met others who are still waiting to have children.
“We feel we must wait a couple of years to have time to get to know one another.”
We need to get our house built first, so we have everything in order before we start a family.”
Of course, these statements sound very wise. But they are not biblical. And sadly even many pastors and ministers reiterate the same rhetoric.
How refreshing it was to hear Charlie Kirk say over and over again, not only to churches, but to the whole world: “Get married young and have more children than you can afford.”
Was he saying reckless words? No. They are God’s word. And they are not reckless. In fact, isn’t it amazing, that people who say they are “Bible believing believers” discard the very first words that God ever spoke into the ears of man: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth.” Those were the very first words God ever spoke. They come from His heart. They are His plan. And He has never reneged them.
Now, it is a true fact, that if a couple wait until they have the money they think they need before they have a baby, that they most probably will never have a baby. It is a rare minority of people who have all the money they think they need to have a baby.
However, we don’t have a baby because we have enough money. We have a baby because God wants to bless us, because we are obedient to His Word, and because He wants to bring His image into the earth. And when we open our lives to have a baby, God miraculously provides! This is how it works: the baby first, and then the provision. Not the other way around.
In Deuteronomy 28, the blessing chapter, God states the first blessing which is the “blessing of the womb.” Then He continues with all the added blessings of abundant crops and herds and flocks and “blessed shall be thy basket and they store.” All these blessings come AFTER the blessing of the womb!
It comes down to whether we truly believe the God of the Bible? Or a god of our own limited thinking? Do we believe in a God who cannot provide for our first child or maybe only one or two children? Or do we believe in the God of the Bible who miraculously provides for as many children as God plans to give us? We dare not bring Him down to our level.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell