Title: Love your children (Psalm 127:3-5)
Contents
Many young people these days are past the age of marriage, and even if they get married, they do not want to have children. This phenomenon is more pronounced in developed countries. However, the biggest reason for not wanting to have children is for economic reasons. That's way too much money. They don't want to invest their lives in their children, but they want to live comfortably and enjoy themselves and travel as a couple. Many people think of living only for their own benefit. However, when young people are thinking like that, in fact, many parents who gave birth to them and raised them say that they would like to start farming their children once more if given the chance to live one more time. They say they will make the right investment in their children. Those who have lived life will eventually come to realize that the value of life is not only to seek their own benefit, but to have children and invest for them. If you look at the old saying that child farming is the best of agriculture, you can see that it is the most difficult and difficult farming, but also the most rewarding and important job.
It is very sad to not have children. No one comes to visit even if it hurts. Even if you die, there is no one to bury you. People who say "I will not have sons and daughters and will use that money to plan for old age" is a bad person. No one weeps when those people die. If they can have children, they must be born, and those who cannot have children must adopt and raise children. You must give birth either in the womb or in the breast.
Raising children is really difficult these days. It costs a lot of money and crimes against children are on the rise. However, these things are not light enough to not have children. A world without children is like Earth without the sun. There is an English proverb. If the sun disappears from this global village, if there are no children in this world, this global village, this world will become dark. You do not know how precious our children, the children of this land, are. What are your children? What are children?
The value of children conveyed by the psalmist today
1. It is said that children are an inheritance given by God.
The word corporation means possession, inheritance, property, and gift. I don't know how serious the company is. If the company is successful, the person's honor will rise and the family can enjoy wealth and glory. They also have the power to serve society. However, if the company goes wrong due to bad business management, difficult things will follow, your reputation will fall, you may go to jail, and your family as well as your in-laws and cousins may be destroyed. I pray that your business will prosper with God's blessing. I hope it goes well. But your child business is more important than any other business.
Children are not ecological products. Nor is it a product of nature. It is a God-given company. There is no business in the world more important than children. Your children are the best entrepreneurs. However, we must remember that this inheritance is God's inheritance given by God. We often neglect the best business in life, raising children, and focus only on worldly businesses. As a result, there are many times when the child business fails and the child returns as a disaster. On Children's Day, we should take time to think deeply about how we are managing the children's businesses God has given us.
We have entrusted this inheritance to God. Therefore, it is necessary to nurture and nurture decorations according to the corporate philosophy of God, the founder and owner of the company. However, most parents mistakenly believe that their children belong to them, and they want to own them as they please and raise their children according to their wishes. This comes out of the greed of vicarious satisfaction to solve the problems that parents can't usually achieve through their children, and it does not coincide with God's will. This is to idolize children through human greed.
God is behind the children. Children are a precious gift from God. Therefore, we should give thanks to God and give thanks for the gift. You should give thanks to God for giving your children as a gift and give thanks for them. Whether your child is studying well or not, healthy or ill, you don't know how happy it is to have a child. If you study well and get into a prestigious university, you are not a grateful child. According to Dr. Cornell's research, of the 4,045 globally successful people, fewer than 100 have graduated from college. Even after graduating from a prestigious university, there is no limit to who has failed. I don't know how many people have succeeded even if they didn't go to college.
Ladies and gentlemen, how grateful we are that our sons and daughters are alive. Aren't we thankful that our sick sons and daughters are still alive?
Therefore, we must first give thanks to God and say to our sons and daughters, 'Son, daughter, thank you.' Even if you can't study, you have to say thank you. In fact, the inability to study is often hereditary. When children come in with their report cards, think of their own.
2. A child is a superior.
Children are the reward and reward for my sincere and good efforts on earth. Children are a blessing God gives us. There is no reward greater than a child, no reward more precious than a child. Children are our superiors, not our troubles. Only when you regard your children as a blessing from God, you will be able to raise your children very well. Even if you don't have any special success in life, if you raise your children well, you are a great success. He did something rewarding before God.
3. The offspring are the arrows in the hands of the military.
The analogy of children to arrows is that children are precious beings that bring true victory in the battles of life. In traditional warfare, the one with the most arrows wins.
For children to be a blessing, parents must first become soldiers. In fact, traditions and arrows are of little use to non-military people. When the parents become soldiers, the child becomes a traditional full arrow. If the parents are not soldiers, the child is not an arrow, but only firewood in the furnace.
Parents must raise their children to be soldiers. Most parents focus their energy on getting their children to go to a good college and get a good job rather than raising their children for the military. This is because you do not have the right values for your children. We need to raise our children as soldiers of Christ rather than entering Seoul National University or Harvard University. No matter how good a university you are and get a good job, if you don't have God in your heart, you're still a body without a soul. Therefore, we must raise our children to be soldiers of Jesus Christ.
That is why we need to raise our children as soldiers of faith and spiritual soldiers. It's about letting children grow up in the arms of the church. Two students from Priston went drinking every night. I was going to drink that day too, and a light came on on the bulletin board at the church and I saw a message saying, 'The wages of sin is death. One student saw it and was stabbed and went to church, while the other went to the bar as usual. Years later, the student who went to church became the 24th President of the United States. He also became the 26th president. He is Cleveland. But the student, who went to the bar, became a death row inmate and wept the day his friend was elected president.
The church is the house of blessing. It is a house that makes people. It is a house where mistakes are washed away. It is a house where God's love descends. So we risk our lives to bring our sons and daughters to church. It is a must-have from an early age.
Saints! You must have a vision to raise your children as spiritual soldiers and soldiers of Jesus Christ. You must have a heart to raise your children to become spiritual masters.
God has given us the decision whether to raise our children as firewood or as soldiers. If parents do not instill in their children the values of God, the world will instill in them their perishable values.