Minding Your Own Business

I have to step on a soapbox here for a moment.  It is so sad and disheartening that people feel the need to tell others that they do not have the right to have children, in any quantity that they choose.  Circumstances should not determine if a married couple should "try" to get pregnant.  God is the author of life.  God is the finisher of life.  The Bible clearly states that HE opens and closes the womb.  Recently I have been acquainted with these scenarios.  One mother carried her baby to term and then the baby went to Heaven while still in the womb.  God began that life just as He ended it.  Now she is, by God's divine grace, pregnant with LIFE again!  I say good for them for letting God use them as HE deems fit.  Others seem to want to cause controversy.  There is another couple that I know that has been told they should not have children because they are not the most educated or financially sound people!  This is so ignorant.  When God gives life He gives it for a reason.  While that may be hard to accept on all levels, it the definitive truth defined by an infinite God.  In my own situation, people are highly critical of the number of children I have and God forbid I should have more.  I have dealt with this since I began having children.   All I can say is God is great, God is good, God is merciful!  My family has not lacked for one thing EVER.  As a matter of fact, God has provided in abundance.  It is absolutely amazing what God can do when we let Him!
Are you letting God use you to your full potential to which you were called or do you let others opinions affect your decisions?   When you lay down the cross of caring what others think about you and pick up the attitude of caring about only what God thinks, you have taken the first step to living a liberated life.  May I encourage you today to do that which is pleasing unto God and don't worry about what others think?  In the end, you are accountable for you.  'So and so made me do it' is the excuse of a 2 or 3 year old.  It's time to rise above that mentality.
For those of you who feel the need to criticize others decisions - pray for them.  You have no idea why they do what they do and I can assure you it is not done just to spite you.   A true friend supports and never criticizes.  Pray,  don't persecute and for  Heaven's sake, Mind Your Own Business.

Word of the Day
Persecute = to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religion, race, or beliefs; harass persistently.   to annoy or trouble persistently.

 
But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;  Matthew 5:44