I feel like weeping when I think about the tragedy of more than 1 million babies murdered in their mother’s womb in the country every year. Abortion has turned the womb into a tomb.

I wonder what those presiding doctors and nurses would think if they read Psalm 127. The psalmist tells us that “children are wealth—inheritance from the Lord.”

What are we to do with wealth? First, we accept it. When our children come to us, we accept them. They are God’s gift to us, a treasure. We protect our wealth, and we ought to protect our children. It’s so wrong that many are not protected before they are born.

Then we are to invest it. We train our children, teaching them to live righteously. Their lives become as invested money, and the dividends start to return. One of the great delights of getting older is seeing those godly dividends. Children enrich our lives.

But children are also weapons—“like arrows in the hand of a warrior” (v.4) Who’s going to fight God’s battle if Christians don’t bring children into this world and raise them to know the Lord? In this world of sin, when truth is being attacked on every side, we need to raise our children to be able to stand with the authority and say, “Thus saith the Lord.”

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Children are God’s blessing but also a great responsibility. Ask God for wisdom as you invest in and train your children or other’s children. Prepare them for the ministries He has for them and rejoice at the inheritance He has given you.