The Fruit of the Womb

God’s Heritage

Children are a heritage of the LORD, the fruit of the womb is His reward (Psalm 127:3).

Children are God’s heritage, an “allotment” (CLT[1]) entrusted to parents. By divine design the father is delegated with authority over them (cf. Joshua 24:15; I Timothy 3:4).

The father’s responsibility of trusteeship includes physical provision (I Timothy 5:8); education (Deuteronomy 6:6-9; 11:18-19; Proverbs 22:6; Ephesians 6:4) and discipline[2] (Deuteronomy 8:5; Proverbs 3:12; 13:24; 19:18; 22:15; 23:13-14; 29:17); bringing them up “in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4).

Children are in turn to honor their parents (Ephesians 6:1-3). This honor extends to older children providing and caring for their elderly parents (I Timothy 5:4); thus completing the cycle of life.

Time on earth is very limited; but with a skillful archer’s hand, fathers can aim their children into the future, where God’s heritage continues to soar to its intended target.

As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth (Psalm 127:4).

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6).

Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr.

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[1]Concordant Literal Translation

[2]Discipline is not so much something we do TO our children as it is something we do FOR them.

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