Children are a blessing! Oh yes they are. They are usually so cute and innocent and bring great joy to their parents. That is why we will take photos of their every milestone and host birthday parties for them.
There is a flip side to it too. We have many unwanted babies who are either abandoned or thrown into pit latrines.
Such acts make the heart of God bleed for He is the giver of life.
Children are a heritage from God, a reward.
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He values the innocence of children and has said that, unless we are as innocent as children, we will never see the gates of heaven.
God describes children as the crown of the aged while they are the glory of their fathers.
He is also categorical that the kingdom of God belongs to children.
So important are children to God that He has instructed parents to show them the right path from which they will never depart even when they are old.
That is why God’s heart bleeds when we mistreat children. Even dogs treat children better than some biological parents!
How many times have we read or heard of infants getting rescued by dogs! That is why we too must move in tandem with God’s heart.
To those pregnant and considering abortion, please stop and consider all the above.
That life in you did not choose to be created: it happened under God’s watch so there is no such thing as accident. And some of the reasons given for expelling God’s life are ridiculous to say the very least.
They range from completing studies to wanting to remain a girl!
To this lot, I would advise a change of heart.
We have witnessed women who were sure they wanted to give away their children but as soon as the little bundle of joy landed in their arms, they knew they would never let go.
All you need is counselling. To those citing financial reasons, the advice is to give the child up for adoption.
Kenyans need to start adopting children. I dare say many of us have not given it a thought. There are many childless couples who consider it anathema to adopt a child.
They would rather visit the moon if it will produce a child for them. Men would rather marry second wives to bear them.
Adopting a child simply means we have extended the love of God to the unfortunate, and given them a lifeline.
Adopting means you have opened your heart to share your resources with a child who would not have seen the joys of life.
Adopting means you have taken one more potential criminal element off the streets and given a child a promising career and a life, a normal life that will give him/her a sense of dignity.
Every child matters to God. Let us play our role as guardians of children even if we did not sire them.
