Valuing Your Children

This first message on children is foundational. Our passage clearly reveals the necessity of being dependent on GOD when setting up a home. He alone is both our strong provider and protector, as well as our sovereign overseer. Extreme human efforts are a waste of time when God is not working with us. He regularly meets our human needs when we rest in Him, even during our sleep. We must recognize that it is God who generously gives children as a GIFT. They come as a heritage from the LORD - assets and blessings in this world. Thus they help, like arrows to a warrior - his tools and trust. They bring happiness to the man whose quiver is full of them - making him contented and confident in the public square.