God tells men and their wives that they are blessed in having children, lots of sons and daughters. Believe it or not, you need both – sons and daughters. A daughter helps her daddy to understand his wife better. A son helps his mommy to understand her husband better. It’s simply ignorant selfish people that criticize or try to shame couples who want and have lots of children.
Sons are to work with their father as they are growing up, learning how to protect and provide for their own families, and then stand together against their enemies. Ours have. Daughters are to work with mothers at home. Daughters can become a mother’s best friends. Mine have. Daughters and sons should be ready to take care of their parents in their old age. There’s nothing more joyful to elderly parents than to be close to their children and grandchildren, and have interaction with them on a regular basis.
Most families don’t have these blessings in their lives for all sorts of right or wrong reasons. There are families that go to church together, and maybe believe the same, but never really enjoy each other’s company. There are families that are made up of leftovers from broken marriages with kids from his first marriage (maybe second and third), kids from her first marriage (maybe second or third) where everyone is frustrated with all the chaos of who or what is more important; how to get along with so much bitterness.
It’s our children who speak our legacy at the end of our lives as to what kind of a parent and person we’ve been and how we have influenced and affected the people around us. It’s our children who carry on with faith in Jesus Christ as we have taught them to do, by our example.
“Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.” Proverbs 17:6
What does God allow us to take with us into eternity? OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN!