Kind of makes me nervous, as women in my family tend to be very fertile. Do I have to be having babies from now until menopause? But maybe that's exactly the attitude she's talking about.
I don't think that's necessarily God's will for you. Her point and the point of many others is that many ppl do not pray and ask God anything when it comes to having kids. In fact a lot married Christians do not pray about sex period. The majority of ppl forget that our bodies belong to God in every. I know I was not taught to apply scripture to childbearing. It never even occurred to me.
In addition to that, God wants to give us the desires of our hearts. If we don't want to have 20 kids- God is okay with that, hence him being a God of freewill. Now, if God speaks to you about having 20 kids- I do think there is a price to pay for not being willing to obey him.
Once again, the key is to seek God's will in this and all things. We must...
I don't believe God intends for each and every individual to have the exact same set of aptitudes.
Thanks for saying this. Definitely not.
We cannot make a doctrine of this or anything. If God tells you to not drink soft drinks it is b/c he designed you and knows what your body can tolerate. You shouldn't then try to make sodas evil for everybody else. This doesn't make God inconsistent rather it exemplifies one of his many character traits 'all knowing'.
It's viewpoints like these that pressure many people into deigning to fit into a culture that is counterintuitive to what God really wants for them personally.
ITA
By far and large we are anti-family/ kids here in America. Most ppl have bought into the mindset "A boy for me, a girl for you, now praise the Lord Halelujah we're through!" Once again no prayers were uttered to God about what His will was/is in this area. If you have more than 2 kids the average person will give you the old raised eyebrow (Oh, y'all didn't have nothing better to do huh?). You have the perfect
'little' family. The average mindset is 'get the kids grown and get them gone' so
I can do what
I want to do. Children require time, money, and committment. Very selfish. It's not about us. Children are not viewed as blessings but as inconveniences. At least that's how it is with a lot of ppl I know.
Children are tolerated. A by-product. Not carefully planned for but more like 'I gotta go tell ol boy my period is late'.
erplexed
I think, (just my opinion) people who believe such as this need to seek out some true understanding and wisdom from Jesus, a.k.a the Holy Spirit who will reveal to us the truth about all things.
Please and thank you! Ask God about all things- pray concerning all things including your reproductive life. What he tells me to do will likely be different than what he tells you to do but ask the Holy Spirit to show you the truth concerning all things.
Excellent posts ladies....
Here are a few familiar scriptures that come to mind. Once again, I'm not saying you have to do what God has told me to do
. Not saying you are going to the hot place w/ gasoline drawers on.
Not saying be bare foot and pregnant and never have a career or a life outside of being 'mom-o-matic'.
Just saying seek God about this too...if you dare.
Phil 4:6
6Do not
be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
[ie God, I don't want a mini van full of kids. I'm not sure I can handle that. Never-the-less, I thank you for your will being done in this and all areas of my life....]
Rom12:1
1Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.
[ie God, I don't want a mini van full of kids. I'm not sure I can handle that. Never-the-less, I present all of my body including my reproductive organs to you as a living sacrifice ....]
1 Cor 6:19-20
19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and
ye are not your own?
20For ye are bought with a price: therefore
glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
[Are we really willing to submit and trust God like that?]
"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man." (Ecc 12:13 AV)
It's not about us.
It is about the Kingdom. "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done..."