A close friend of mine was casually talking in a group of my coworkers about seeking God. What he said clicked so well in my head, and I immediately thought I should share it with you guys on here.
He said, “My wife and I prayed like crazy before we had each of our sons, asking God if it was His timing. After they were born we didn’t ask Him if we should change their diapers.”
When God tells us to do something He knows the whole of the situation, and if He calls me to anything big He has also called me to the minor details involved with that task. It doesn’t matter how mundane they may seem. My attitude is to be joyful obedience.
I love to obey the Father.
-Micah
Did your friends pray this prayer before or after they knew they were pregnant?
I ask this because it sounds like they prayed this when they knew they were pregnant. What if God had said that it wasn’t His timing and they screwed up His plan? Would they have inquired about changing diapers at that point?
Do they have a responsibility to the child if it wasn’t God’s plan for them to have the child?
I know my questions aren’t relevant to the overall theme of your post, but they are the questions that came to me as I was reading.
:o) Yeah, that’s not where I was going with this. That’s okay though. Sorry for the confusion. They were praying about the timing of when to have their children. As God led they obeyed and had their children.
As for their responsibility to a child they didn’t plan for:
There are too many variables to answer this. It would get very hypothetical. For instance, are they able to care for a child? Are they currently in prison? Are they adults or 12 years old? I’ll just clarify and say that these particular people were adults, Christians, fully able to care for children and were very intentional in their obedience to God. If they had had a surprise child they would have been responsible and would have responded likewise. We should also look at the idea of “God’s plan” sometime. I think that is a bigger issue than should be handled in this blog.
Thanks for reading and responding!