Having children is such a wonderful blessing! God is adding joy into a family's home when someone new enters in. He is the Creator and creates new life, which no one has the right to take away! With these wonderful blessings, there's always responsibility and added work - which is always rewarded with joy in the end as well.
But we live in a fallen world and sometimes, parenting can be pretty hard, because from birth the sin nature is manifest:
Even from birth the wicked go astray;
from the womb they are wayward and speak lies.
Psalm 58:3
Surely I was sinful at birth,
sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Psalm 51:5
Have you ever noticed those really disobedient children running a muck in public, like the grocery stores - screaming, hollering, and carrying on? Or maybe you have children of your own and witnessed, first hand, how really sinful they (and we) are? Check out this funny video.
Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline will remove it far from him.
Proverbs 22:15
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