Who Knows Best?

The second coming of Jesus Christ will not happen until the full number of Gentiles has come in (see Romans 11:25)

Be fruitful and multiply! God said this many times in the bible. I've often wondered what kind of impact birth control and family planning has on the christian life, if any. I've always had a conflict with God telling us to have children and the world telling us in a sense, not to. After reading the Romans verse above, I clearly saw the impact.

When believing parents have children, and raise them to come to a saving belief on their own, they are adding to the full number of Gentiles that must come in before Jesus will return. Also, the more workers (believers) available, the more work (proclaiming) will be done. Parents who follow God's command to have children are hastening the return of Jesus Christ to the earth.

On the flip side, believing parents who neglect to follow God's directive in this area, in a sense by saying they know better, are quite possibly slowing down the return of our Lord.

I would say that Satan knows full well this impact, too. The longer Christ stays away, the longer Satan has to play around and try to control the world and exert his power in it. He knows what his fate will be upon Christ return. It's easy to see Satan's hand in the area of abortion, but have we ever considered his hand in the area of birth control and family planning? Isn't that the same old deceptive lie that he always likes to get us to believe. The lie that says we know better than God what is good for us. The lie that gets us to go outside of God's will for us. Satan is very aware of the benefit to him in all he does. We need to be more aware of his tactics and the impacts.

I know as believers, we wait in hopeful anticipation for the promise of Christ return to be fulfilled. We pray for His peace to come, for his judgement to take place, for things to be restored to their original glory. We want it to come now! We want relief from this world today! We are aliens here and we want to be gathered home in Christ!

And, yet, we may have inadvertently delayed the glorious coming of Christ because of the decisions we made in our narrow and limited capacity to understand God's story and our role in it!

There is so much we don't know and don't understand. Isn't is nice though that there's someone who does (God)? We should learn to better trust that He really does know what is best for us and give control of our Spirit over to Him in all things.