Today, as the Lord hastens his work in a darkening and dangerous world the need is more critical than ever for faithful women to bring children into the world and nurture them in the faith, righteousness, and courage.
Satan has never ceased to wage war against the most essential aspect of mortality -- the very first commandment for Adam and Eve to multiply and replenish the earth.
My own children and family friends have reported the need to remove themselves from more affluent Church congregations, where there was open hostility against having large families, to congregations where having children was celebrated and supported.
I’m reminded of my Grandmother’s branch in Philadelphia during the 1930’s. Couples felt constrained by social and economic pressures to have no more than two children. She said that when someone brought a baby to meetings the women would pass them around and hold them in great yearning. Nevertheless, she reported they felt duty bound to limit the size of their families. In her later years Grandmother wistfully commented, usually when holding one of our babies, that she wished she’d had more children.
Satan's negative influence aimed at curbing family size is felt not only in government policy & judicial decisions and private social agencies, but also in church congregations caught up in materialism.
How might God frustrate Satan in his war against faithful families and their righteous desire to have children? By exercising Option B of the Law of Sarah. By adjusting the current laws of human fertility, and thereby enabling and encouraging families to continue having children into their later years.
We recall that the Lord “commanded Abraham, and Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham to wife . . . because this was the law; and from Hagar sprang many people -- thus, fulfilling, among other things, the promises.” (See D&C 132:34)
“Option A” was Sarah when she was barren, giving another woman to her husband to wife and to have children as stipulated by the law of that dispensation.
“Option B” was God enabling Sarah to give birth in her advanced years. And it will be God again changing the biological affairs of having children by prolonging the fertility of women -- in some cases perhaps dramatically opening or reopening “closed” wombs so they might have the children they desire. Consider Sarah’s story (at age 90):
- And they [three holy men] said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
- And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
- Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
- Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
- And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
- Is anything too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
- Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh. (Genesis 18:9-15)
After she bore Isaac Sarah rejoiced and in lyrical delight proclaimed:
What would be the effect in our generation should God change the management of affairs by extending the biological age of fertility among the faithful -- in a generation when few may be having children?
Some will celebrate and others will be deeply distressed
When the Lord chooses to exercise Option B of the Law of Sarah, when he has changed the management of affairs for having children, we in the Church and Satan will recognize that the Lord is weighing into this war with a clear demonstration of His power, intervention, and determination about the commandment to multiply and replenish the earth. After all, providing mortal bodies for God's spirit children was the point of organizing this earth in the first place.
When the Lord chooses to exercise Option B of the Law of Sarah, when he has changed the management of affairs for having children, we in the Church and Satan will recognize that the Lord is weighing into this war with a clear demonstration of His power, intervention, and determination about the commandment to multiply and replenish the earth. After all, providing mortal bodies for God's spirit children was the point of organizing this earth in the first place.
I think your intentions are great, but I think that you over estimate what science can actually do. Many women yearn for more children, and pay tens of thousands of dollars trying to have their own and are not successful. Fertility dramatically diminishes each year after 36. The Lord designed our bodies, knowing that childbearing would be limited, even impossible after a certain age. It becomes dangerous for both mother and child as the mothers age increases. I think what we need to be working on is teaching our younger mothers faith to have children, teaching our young people the importance and blessings of marriage- which you and your family have always done. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHilary, thank you for your comment. This post is an ongoing work in progress, and I made adjustments in response to your concerns. Another blog will soon follow about the Lord's apparent plan now underway to address the many unmarried among his daughters who desire families with children of their own. Lloyd
DeleteThe following blog post, "The Lord is Setting His Cloistered Daughters Free / Lloyd" suggests that women who go on missions return prepared to more safely search for husbands among non members. Dating non members is more direct and more frightening than dying single with the hope of being sealed to a worthy man on the other side of the veil. But if the Lord should prompt you to date non members now -- what then? (see goo.gl/oGI7Bz in She Says, He Says). - Lloyd
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