"If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he."
The wisdom of this verse, simply lies before us. What will you do with it? What will others do with it? You have to ponder the thinking of it. In our present day, it is all about the here and the now. But the reality, that few give thought to is, Eternity. If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years - 'It is appointed unto man once to die, and then the judgement'; The reality is that all men will die. this man being described will live many years. More years than usual. In our present world today, men and women live 80 years (rounded off). Eighty years to do what. This man mentioned in our verse begat 100 children. That is a lot of children. With the life that you ahve been given, what have you begotten. What have you produced for the Lord. So what if he begets 100 children? IF they all become sons and daughters of hell, then better to have not had any at all. But if they be born again children of God, then great fruit and blessings have been gleaned in their earthly life. It is enough for us to know that we may see in this lifetime some of the product of our actions. This man became a father to 100 children. What have you fathered? Will you be known as a father of good deeds? kind words? holy living? mighty prayers? Or will you be know for fathering lies? great anger? horrible sins? lusts? pride? Do we all not sow and reap something? What shall be said of the man that was born, lived, and died and fathered nothing? Why did he ever live to begin with?
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