Does Having Children Guarantee the Future? - Rev. Matthew Littlefield

 We live in a day of self-indulgence. Many people have eschewed marriage and long-term relationships because they are afraid that they will be left by their wife or husband. This is foolishness to the utmost highest. To avoid a relationship because you fear that your relationship will fail is really a form of self-harm. Why would you live under such cowardice and fear? Why would you let that control your life.

I would find this completely shocking, that someone would avoid ever pursuing a relationship for fear that it would fail, if I did not remember that I thought this way myself when I was about 15 or 16 years old. I remember there was a girl who liked me that I knew liked me, but I never pursued her. I was too shy in this arena. But it was not long after that situation that I learnt from that and things changed dramatically. But I was a teenager at the time. Being an older teenager is when you work these things out. It is unseemly, and unbecoming for a man to still be in this place of fear of approaching a woman when he is in his twenties, thirties or forties. Yet, the truth is that many men have settled into this mindset, and nothing can shake them from it. Or so it appears at least......

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...So, if we want to win the future it is not just a case of having lots of children, though we should do that. It is a case of making sure that we have a physical and spiritual legacy of righteousness. Because you can have a large family but then war, disease, pestilence, or some other calamity from God can take them all away. But a spiritual legacy is a sure foundation, and a spiritual legacy that you build into your children is an even more sure foundation.

I am not seeking to rebuke or disagree with anyone who says we should be encouraging young men to get a wife and have kids. I am all for this. I just think what I saw in my devotions over the last week or more, about God taking away the posterity of the wicked is an important addition to this conversation. Ultimately this is not just a physical world, it is a physical and spiritual world, and we cannot forget this. As we read in Job 18 about the wicked, “5The light of the wicked indeed goes out, And the flame of his fire does not shine…19 He has neither son nor posterity among his people, Nor any remaining in his dwellings.” When God’s favour is not upon you there is nothing in the physical that you can do to overcome this. But if God’s favour is upon than you can overcome everything this world has to throw at you.

May you look up God for his favour. And may God favour you with an incredible posterity.