I Don't Want Anymore Because...

I hear it ALL the time, "I don't want to bring kids into this world because it is so evil."  That's the answer almost every single time I am talking to someone about why they do not want more kids or why they don't want any kids at all.  Although, I do believe that is a true statement (because who couldn't tell the world is full of evil when we watched the events in Charlottesville take place over the weekend), I also believe that that is all the more reason WHY Christian families should choose to have children.  The fact of the matter is that the world has been evil since the fall of man in Genesis when Adam and Eve ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  That was it.  That was also over 6,000 years ago.  If we, as Christians, choose to not have any children then Christianity will become almost non-existent in just a matter of a few decades.  That is a scary thought.  Then what will this world be like?  I'm not saying that everyone who is not a Christian is evil, I'm just simply stating that with God all things are better...after all, he did give you life.  I can't imagine a world without Christianity, how wicked it would be is really beyond my comprehension.

Evil has been around for well over 6,000 years now.  The reason that we feel like the world is more wicked now is because there are more people, BUT we hear about all the terrible things that happen all the time because of technology.  We can get an instant report of any bad thing that has happened, almost anywhere in this world with just the touch of a screen or click of a mouse. We can be anywhere, at anytime and see what is going on or hear about it with the help of the radio or alerts on our phones or on TV.  Our world is so consumed with only broadcasting the bad things that we ignore the good.  The evening news only talks about the bad things that have happened that day, your local paper only discusses recent arrests, or shootings and so on...therefore, I think that is why we have just developed the mentality that the world is more evil now than it was back in Bible times.  From the time God found Adam and Eve "hiding" in the garden until today, evil has been around.  I mean, Cain killed his brother (Abel),  David had Uriah killed to cover up an affair he had with Uriah's wife that led to her getting pregnant, there were plenty of wars, the Israelites were slaves, Saul killed Christians (before becoming Paul), not to mention all of the diseases there were and the list could go on.  All of these examples are straight from the Bible, times when people believe there were no such things like murder or adultery taking place.  If you take a closer look at the story of the Israelites while they were in slavery to Egypt for hundreds of years, they still kept having children.  As a matter of fact they kept having them at such a rate that Pharaoh became fearful  they would ally themselves with Egypt's enemies, so he ordered that all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to reduce the population of the Israelites.  Then along came Moses.  What a mighty man of God he was.  That just goes to show you that even in the midst of the most terrible times God will have his way and his people will prevail.  That's a different story for a different day, but feel free to read the book of Exodus and you will see just how terrible it was for the Israelites and how God saved Moses from Pharaoh to become the man who ultimately ended up being the one (with the help of Aaron) to have the people freed. 

Now, on to the point that Christianity is dying out.  Did you know that there are more Christians dying of old age than there are being born?  In Germany alone researchers have found that there were an estimated 1.4 MILLION more Christian deaths than births between the years 2010 and 2015.  Muslim babies will outnumber Christian births by the year 2035.  Islam is said to be the fastest, most rapidly growing religion in the world.  Not just in certain countries, but in the WORLD.  People, Christians, Christianity is literally dying out!  Our future generations don't have a chance in this world if we put fear before God's will.  The Bible explicitly tells us to be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28). I wholeheartedly believe if you are able to have children, then this is what we, as Christians, are called to do and should do.  I get it though.  It's scary raising children in this world, but what are the chances of of it being better if we don't have children to train up the way God says and send them out to reach the world?  Who knows, you may be holding the world back from the next Moses or Billy Graham.  If we can't put our faith and trust in God to take care of our precious babies, the very one who gave life, then do we really, truly have ANY faith in God for anything to begin with?  

Christianity is depleting quickly, trust God. I encourage you to read the book of Exodus, along with these few verses here:  Romans 8:28 Proverbs 22:6  Matthew 17:20  Genesis 1:28 Psalm 127:5