Why we will have a large family.

We desire a large family. When bringing this up to just about any one, the eye's enlarge, the mouth starts to sag and the smoke pouring out of their ears brings the all too familiar response "you have 4 kids, you already have a huge family!" Again, I know how many children we have and we're all the more determined to one day embrace having a large family. Dis-belief is something I'm now used to encountering when speaking my mind in any public place. However, it's the not so public arena's that shock me most. My own mother, desperate to protect and guide me from ruining my life, begged to pay for birth control after our wedding rehearsal dinner! Convinced of the "fact" that we would be utterly destitute due to the deplorable naive and or foolish choice's we would soon walk out. Finally, aware of my stubbornness and unwillingness to bow to her wishes, she and the rest of my family took to a new road of personal redemption, they would wait for the fulfilling day of "I told you so". Five and a half years and 4 children later I find, they were right. We were naive and maybe even a little foolish. We had no idea of the joy's, fulfilment, and immense satisfaction that trusting the Lord for our family could possibly bring. When my wife and I were unifying our hearts for our new life we had some great idea's and some misunderstandings. We came to grips with what we believe to be true for every believer, for those who are without knowledge, and even for us. Children are a blessing and every believer should be delighted in them and understand when the Lord says they are his blessing's to us we should not have heart's that say "we don't want that blessing Lord, give us something else." We must embrace the fact that he is the Lord! He does know what he's talking about. For those without understanding we must stand strong and walk out our lives pitying them for what they are missing out on. Now on to what is right for us. Psalm 37:4,5 says "Delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord: trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass."

It's pretty simple, delight thyself also in the Lord: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. If you are delighting yourself in the Lord than your desires will be molded into what he would have you to pursue. His desires will be upon your heart and he will grant them in his will for your life. Commit thy way unto the Lord: trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass. Trust him for those things he has spoken into your life and you can and will walk in confidence of those treasures. The Lord has given us a desire for a large family, we trust this is his will and we relish all that it entails. Gleefully we walk on knowing, we will have a large family.