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Psalm chapter 127, verse 3. Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord. The fruit of the womb, a reward.

What a great verse in the middle of this chapter about God building a house.

And oftentimes when the Bible talks about building a house, it's

talking about building a family. When you look at Second Samuel 7, when God promised to build

King David a house, God was talking about a family. And that in and of itself is really

instructive for us. Because when we think about building, we often think about building

a career or a business or a portfolio or a resume. But the Bible actually prioritizes building

a family with children and lots of them at that, a quiver full of them, as this chapter goes on to say in verse five,

which is a really different perspective than the world around us today.

And we live in a world that sees children as barriers to our careers and all we want to

accomplish.

You look at the trend lines, they're clear.

Like young adults in our culture are putting off marriage until

later and later oftentimes in the name of getting an education or a job or building a career

as if marriage is a barrier to that and kids an even larger barrier or even a burden that would prevent

that and do you see what's wrong with

this picture we're buying into? We live in a culture that sees children oftentimes as barriers and

burdens when the Bible calls them blessings. So let's be careful with the way we talk about children.

Even as the church, we say,

well, I have one kid or two kids or three kids and I don't want anymore. Like, is that the way we

talk about blessings? Or is that the way we talk about burdens? And what would it look like for

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