Children & Mirrors

I just found out that ANOTHER friend of mine is pregnant! I've been a believer for a little over 30 years and NEVER in my lifetime have I known so many people having babies all at the same time (like in a span of one year, maybe a year and a half). I find this incredible. The couple I just found out about today did not plan this. They've only been married for not quite six months. And another couple I know didn't plan their current pregnancy, as their third child is less than a year old! I think God is up to something!

Psalm 127:3 & 4 says, "Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one's youth." Well, I'm thinking this is one of the WORST times to be having babies in light of the state of our nation, but obviously, He disagrees! (I didn't tell that to those having the babies). Therefore, I'm thinking He must be planning for all these babies that have been born in the last year and that will be born in the coming year to be like arrows in the hand of a warrior! Him being the warrior, of course!

So, please join me in praying for all these little warriors He's raising up. They may never know the pleasures of life that we have known and may have to pay a higher price to be called by His Name than we have. America is changing rapidly, and not for the better, sadly enough. We are in the phase of reaping what we've sown and it's not pretty.

But I don't want to end this on a glum note. Going back to verse 3, He tells us children are a GIFT of the LORD! HIS personal gift to those who have them! That is precious. So, for all the mothers of those children who are difficult, yes...they are God's GIFT to them! I've heard that the things that cause the most tension between parents and their children are the things the parents see in the child that is most like them. So, it sounds like God uses children like little mirrors that the parent can't easily walk away from! And why wouldn't He, when He tells us in James 1:23 & 24 that if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror, goes away and immediately forgets what kind of person he was? That's a lot harder when you have a child that is a mirror! So, even if you've never had a child, join me in praying for those parents who are having a hard time with their little mirrors! That they'd 'get' what it is He's trying to show them through their child/children...instead of just being angry at them.