So in a horrible twist of fate and awful irony today is Mother’s Day and the 50th Anniversary of the Pill. Yup. Happy Mother’s day to all you mothers out there that chose to not be mothers, or choose to at your own convenience.
I think that there is something to be said about giving God full control of our lives. I think that there is a reason why God said that children are a blessing. I think that God meant it when he said that grandchildren are the glory of old men. God is all about family. He is Father, we are His children. He adopted us into His family because he wanted to be with Him forever. He loves to give good gifts to His children. In the Old Testament the Jewish people were counted by number in families and in the New Testament entire families were saved in one night.
I think that we have confused humanistic tendencies to accelerate human achievement and rights with God’s desire to give us abundant life. We have made children a burden instead of a blessing. An abundant life is a blessed life. And a blessed life is having lots of children.
One of God’s first commandments to humans was to multiply and fill the earth. Even after all this time the earth still isn’t full, there’s still plenty of room in Wyoming for starters.
There is a commercial on right now for “Essure”- a permanent birth control. Birth Control that you don’t have to take daily, you just go to your doctor and you come out 10 minutes later not ever having to worry again about being preggers. Just go on with your life. It drives me crazy every time I see it. My family isn’t complete when I think its complete. My family is complete when God says its complete.
It heavily irritates me that we have made children a matter of planning. A matter of a good wise decision made in the right time with lots of forethought and money in the bank. We have made having less children a fad to accommodate our need for more security, more wealth, a better education, and even a more developed economy. I think that we’ve been tricked into believing that birth control should be a normal thing for women of child producing age.
When there are conversations about giving God our all, about letting Him be in control of our lives, why don’t we ever talk about reproduction? You’ll never hear a pastor give a sermon on that. I just wonder what would happen if we would really trust God with everything. If we really did then why would be need birth control?
What if this was the truth?: birth control flies in the face of a Good Father who knew us before the foundations of the world, who had dreams in His heart for us before He even breathed the breath of life into the first Adam.
I think that God had dreams for all the children that never were.
