Children Are Not an Inconvenience

There’s a subtle yet powerful narrative echoing through our culture today that children are, at best, a lifestyle choice, and at worst, a costly inconvenience. The message is relentless: your dreams, your career, your body, your peace all are threatened by the arrival of a child. And though no one shouts it outright, the insinuation is clear children derail success, interrupt comfort, and delay self-fulfillment.

It wasn't always this way.

Scripture presents a radically different picture. From the beginning, God blessed humanity with the command, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it” (Genesis 1:28). This wasn't a burdensome law but a divine commission an invitation into the sacred act of creation itself. Children were seen not as distractions from life’s purpose, but as integral to it.

Today, that command has been hushed by slogans and convenience. A child is now seen as a potential financial strain, a reason to delay, or a “clump of cells” whose value must first be justified. Parenthood has become a Plan B a backup life for those who tire of travel or achieve their “career goals.” But biblically, children are never Plan B. They are a gift, a heritage, and a powerful sign of hope.

A Demon’s Strategy

If it seems absurd to view children as an interruption, consider who might benefit from that view. The powers of darkness understand that to devalue children is to strike at the very image of God. From the blood-stained waters of the Nile to the cries in Bethlehem, history shows their hatred for little ones. Not simply because children are helpless or small, but because they reflect even in infancy the God who creates and calls humanity to bear his likeness.

The enemy’s playbook is disturbingly effective in modern times: convince men and women that children are a curse. Make motherhood seem like a trap, and fatherhood a nuisance. Whisper that dominion God’s call to steward the earth through family and legacy is outdated. Replace it with the gospel of self self-expression, self-preservation, self-glory. Wrap it in therapeutic language and sell it as liberation.

Motherhood Isn’t a Prison

Much of the modern messaging toward women equates children with limitation. A career is progress; pregnancy is a setback. A woman with ambition, we are told, should delay or even deny the call to motherhood. But Scripture describes something entirely different. The womb isn’t a jail cell it’s a holy chamber where God knits together life (Psalm 139:13). Motherhood, far from being confinement, is exalted in Scripture. “She opens her mouth with wisdom,” Proverbs 31 says of the godly mother, “and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.” Her influence shapes nations, even if her name never graces a corner office.

To erase the high calling of motherhood in favor of “more important” things is not empowerment it’s loss. The enemy wants women to believe that children diminish their worth. God says otherwise.

Fatherhood Is Purpose

Likewise, men are told that fatherhood is something that happens after the real work of life is done. Build a brand, climb the ladder, achieve greatness then, maybe, have a child. But biblical fatherhood is not an afterthought; it's a vital expression of masculine strength and legacy.

In Psalm 127, children are described as “arrows in the hand of a warrior.” Arrows aren’t decorative. They’re for battle. A godly man sees children not as accessories, but as spiritual investments lives shaped and launched into a world in need of truth, courage, and grace.

Men were made to lead, protect, and provide not just materially, but spiritually. The enemy tempts men to pour themselves into fleeting achievements and sterile pursuits. God calls them to plant generational roots.

The Myth of the Quiet House

One of the most heartbreaking images painted in this cultural lie is the empty home not one emptied by tragedy or delay, but by choice. It’s the couple who postponed children until “the time was right,” only to find it never was. The man who spent his years building wealth but left no legacy. The woman who believed the lie that her body was too valuable to “sacrifice.” They grow old with quiet halls and still photo frames, perhaps surrounded by pets but not people, retirement but not relationship.

This is not what we were made for.

God doesn’t call every couple to the same path, and many grieve the children they never had or couldn’t have. That grief is real, and God draws near to it. But there is a growing number who never knew that grief because they never saw children as a gift. They simply chose a different story one of ease, control, and silence.

The Countercultural Call

In the end, the birth of a child is not just the arrival of a tiny human. It’s the beginning of purpose. It’s legacy. It’s dominion. And when that child comes to faith, it’s glory.

To raise a child is to declare war on darkness to create, shape, teach, and send forth a soul that may one day stand against the gates of hell. Children aren’t just blessings; they are warriors in the making. That’s why the enemy hates them. That’s why the culture mocks them. And that’s why we must cherish them.

So yes, the world will say children cost too much, take too much, and give too little in return. But God’s people know better.

Children don’t interrupt life they enrich it.

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