I want to continue on my last discourse briefly by expanding on something I mentioned.
One key purpose of marriage is a
godly offspring. In fact the gauge for any marriage is always generational.
That is why any generation that
minimizes on that aspect always disappears because they have nobody to take
after them. And it is the same with any generation that treats children as a
burden to be avoided at all cost, even killing them (abortion).
Sadly, in our days, most of them
pretend to be followers of Christ.
Let me continue with the topic.
What is a godly offspring? It is
simply new generation that connects with the God we serve, a generation that
comes from our loins.
Spiritual children are nowhere
close to a godly offspring.
Let me give my mother’s example.
She was raised by a step mother
as her mother left my grandfather (long story).
When my father brought in another
woman and things became almost unbearable for her and her children, she made a
decision that she would not allow her children to be raised by another woman.
She therefore chose to endure everything and anything to protect her children
from the kind of torture she went through growing up.
But she also did something else.
She raised us to respect this abusive and absent man that was our father by respecting
and obeying him however abusive and biased against her he was.
She later connected to Christ.
Do you know the outcome?
All her children (eight of them)
are serving God. Some like me were told to leave everything for ministry while
others occupy senior positions in the churches they attend.
That her decision had God’s
approval is that when my late father decided to follow Christ, he confessed
that he had realized that mistreating my mother was fighting God.
Godly offspring will make us see
the weight of raising those God has given us as many times we give them
anything else but God. We fill their lives with toys that ensure that they will
never get any close to God. Think about it.
Godly offspring requires time to
rub off our faith onto them. There is no Bluetooth or Wi-Fi link for doing so.
Forget about godly offspring with remote parenting.
Godly offspring requires team
work and hard work.
And that is why we see some
uncomfortable commands in scripture.
Like in Ezra and Nehemiah where
those who had married from the nations chased the wives and their children.
Many wonder why God was that cruel to children who made no decision to be in
that makeup.
A disconnected mother is
antithetical to a godly offspring.
Again the scriptures give enough
examples.
Remember Athaliah? What was so
bad with the royal line that she had to clear it when her son who had been king
died?
Jezebel was her mother. Her
agenda was therefore contrary to the God of Israel and everything He stood for.
That is why wickedness was dealt
with conclusively. Look at this verse.
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the
iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. (Genesis 15:16)
Once that cup got full, it then
became sin to allow them to live as the influence of their rottenness could not
be contained.
Jeroboam, Baasha, Ahab had God
clearing from their lineage anyone that pisseth on the wall. Why?
The generation had become
irretrievably anti God.
What am I saying?
Marriage is not simply about two
people of the opposite sex dwelling together.
Though that is important, it is
not the end of the story.
Pursuing God’s agenda as a team
and reproducing the same is the yardstick God has for each marriage. And
nothing speaks that language better than a godly offspring.
And that must be very deliberate
as it never is produced by accident or chance.
A series of irresponsible dare
devil risks can land you into the millionaire club like we see in betting and
even new businesses.
You can never do anything close
with a godly seed.
The devil gets us when he can
convince us that simply remaining together we are fine and everybody who has
opted out of marriage for whatever reason is in sin because God hates divorce.
A marriage without clear
spiritual objectives, especially about the offspring may release more stench to
God’s nostrils than the person who opted out of a marriage because they
realized the marriage was accelerating them and their children to hell the more
they stayed.
That is why the Bible talks of
the husband as the spiritual head of the wife.
Any marital structure different
from that is faulty. I have dealt with that in many past posts and so will not
repeat.
The husband first offers
spiritual leadership before he offers anything else. And that is where many
marriages start floundering because many a modern woman thinks God overlooked
women empowerment when He offered those instructions everywhere we look in the
Bible.
Sadly, that is the number one
cause of the lack of a godly offspring because they are leaning on a tottering
structure.
Debate with Numbers 30 before
responding to me. The New Testament is even more radical in addressing the
marital structure.
Does your marriage consider a
godly offspring as pivotal to what God calls a good marriage?
Are you thinking about a godly
offspring as you are considering that heartthrob for marriage?
I am not shaming those without
children as I know that God is the One who gives them and therefore knows why
He has yet to give you some.
But I also believe you can start
considering and praying for a godly offspring even as you are praying for those
children that you have longed for so long to come.
I hope we understanding each
other
God bless you as you pray and
consider these things
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