Children Da “Inheritance From Jehovah”

WETIN you can think about when you hear the word “inheritance”? Maybe you can think about money, land, house or something important da somebody leave behind for their family member. So it mean inheritance da something really important and when you get it, you can want take good care of it.

The Bible say children da “inheritance from Jehovah.” (Ps. 127:3) Parents who love Jehovah can see their children to be important gift from him. They can try their best to give their children what they need to live. For example, they can make sure da their children happy and they alright in their body. And they can help them to get close friendship with Jehovah.

Sad to say, some parents can’t see their children to be important gift from God. (Isa. 49:15; 2 Tim. 3:1-3) Other parents can really want take good care of their children, but it can’t be easy. What some thing dem da can make it hard for parents to take good care of their children? Wetin Jehovah want parents to do for their children? And how parents can bring their children up so da they can be happy when they grow up?

PROBLEM DEM PARENTS CAN FACE TO TAKE GOOD CARE OF THEIR CHILDREN

Pressure from family members and other people. In some part of the world, people can respect parents who born plenty children. So some people can feel da they mon born plenty children even if they not able to take care of them.
Some parents can be worrying about the future. In some country, plenty children can die because food business hard, plenty sickness there, and they not get plenty hospital. Da the reason why some parents can born plenty children so some of them can live and get big. And in other area dem, parents can born plenty children so their children can take care of them when they get old. This one can happen especially in some country where the government not get any arrangement to take care of old people.
Family planning. In other area, they not get enough birth control for marry people. In some area, people can get enough birth control, but they can be scare to take it because of the way it will affect their body. And other people can’t be having money to buy it because it too expensive in their area.a

WETIN JEHOVAH WANT PARENTS TO DO FOR THEIR CHILDREN?

The family together enjoying theirself. Their teenage daughter talking and her pa listening good-good. The ma and their son playing with the football. — Try to spend time with each of your children

Give your children what they need. Jehovah want for parents to work hard to provide food, clothes, and place to live for all their children dem until they get big. Even though Jehovah want parents to send their children to school, Christian parents mon not send their children to live on mission. But they mon make sure da their children live with them so they can go to school and get the training da will help them in the future. Like da, the children will feel da their parents love them and care for them. At the same time, Jehovah not expect parents to be rich before they do this one. In fact, the people Jehovah use to take care of his Son wor not having plenty money. But they use to work hard to take care of him.—Matt. 13:55, 56; Luke 2:24.

Bible advice: “To talk the truth, if anybody not take care of his own family and especially the people who living in his own house, he na stop believing the thing dem we believe. And he worse than the people who not believe in God.”—1 Tim. 5:8.

Jehovah understand da parents will need their children to help them when they getting old. In fact, one way children can show da they respect their parents da to take care of them when they getting old. (Ex. 20:12; 1 Tim. 5:4) But Jehovah can be happy when parents focus more on taking care of their children instead of focusing more on how their children will take care of them.—2 Cor. 12:14.

Teach your children about Jehovah. Parents also get the responsibility to teach their children to love and worship Jehovah. The most important thing da Jehovah want for parents to do for their children, da to teach them about him.—Deut. 6:6, 7.

Bible advice: “Yor continue to train [your children] and teach them the way Jehovah want for yor to do it.”—Eph. 6:4.

JEHOVAH WANT HELP YOU TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR CHILDREN

The husband and his wife to their house talking. The Bible open on the table in front of them. — Yor talk about how many children yor want born

Think good-good. If yor deciding to born children, yor mon think good-good about your situation. For example, yor get enough money to provide food, clothes, and send plenty children to school? If yor not able to do da one, yor talk about it together and decide how many children yor will born. Da one will help yor to take care of each child the way Jehovah want yor to do it. Da true, Jehovah know da not everything in life can happen the way you plan it. (Eccl. 9:11) But when yor make the effort, Jehovah will help yor to be able to take care of yor children.

Bible advice: “The plans of the diligent surely lead to success, but all who are hasty surely head for poverty.”—Prov. 21:5.

“Which one of yor will want build big house and he will not sit down first to check how much he will spend to see whether he get enough money to finish it?”—Luke 14:28.

Put Jehovah first in your family. Make sure da serving Jehovah da the most important thing for your family. If you already get children, take your time to teach each one of them to love Jehovah. Help them to pay attention and learn when they go to meeting. Try your best to do your Family Worship every week. Teach your children to know how to preach. Don’t ask your older children or other family member to do this thing dem for you. Da your responsibility to do this thing dem for your children. It can’t be easy to help your children to love Jehovah and it can take time. But when you do it, you will really be happy to see your children happy serving Jehovah.

Bible principle: “No greater joy do I have than this: that I should hear that my children go on walking in the truth.”—3 John 4.b

Trust in Jehovah. If you already get children or you thinking about borning children, trust da what Jehovah want you to do more important pass what people in your area want you to do.

Collage: 1. The parents sitting down with their son in meeting. The son put his hand up to comment. 2. The family working together in field service. The pa working with their teenage daughter and the ma working with their two small-small children. — It can take time and hard work to teach children how to worship Jehovah and make him happy

If you decide to not born plenty children, trust da Jehovah will still take care of you when you get old. Don’t feel da you need to born children just so they can take care of you when you get old. And don’t be worrying da when you get old, nobody will be there to take care of you. Jehovah na promise to take care of you, and he can always do what he promise.—Josh. 23:14.

Bible advice: “Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding. In all your ways take notice of him, and he will make your paths straight.”—Prov. 3:5, 6.

“I was once young and now I am old, but I have not seen anyone righteous abandoned, nor his children looking for bread.”—Ps. 37:25.

“So continue to put the Kingdom and the thing dem da right in God eye first, and God will give you all the other thing dem.”—Matt. 6:33.

Children da important gift da Jehovah na give to parents. When parents take care of their children the way Jehovah want them to do it, he can really be happy! So da the reason why they can provide the thing dem their children need and help them to get close friendship with Jehovah. They can also decide how many children they will born and bring their children up the way Jehovah want them to do it and not the way people in their area want them to do it. When Christian parents do this thing dem, they will show da they really love their children and they see them to be important gift from Jehovah.

They Happy With the Decision They Make

You think parents can suffer when they decide to not born plenty children? Da the question plenty parents who living in country where money business hard can think about. Let see what some family head in some of this country dem get to say about it.

People na try to encourage you to born plenty children?

“Yes. Some of them even from the congregation. One brother and his wife tell us say: ‘Why yor only born one boy child? Here in Africa, if you only born one child, it can be just like you not get child. If you born two children, it can be just like you only get one child.’ Later on, we born our second child. But it not even stop them, they wor still expecting us to born more children.”—Jeremias

You na face some problem dem in your life because yor decide to not born plenty children?

“No. Because me and my wife decide to not born plenty children, we wor able to take good care of our family and give them what they need to live. And the most important thing da, all of us wor having strong friendship with Jehovah. I grow up in big family. And I remember da most of the time, it use to be very hard for our ma and pa to give us what we need and to send us to school.”—Jeremias

How your children can feel because yor decide to not born plenty children?

“Our children dem happy because we can take good care of them. They not looking like other children who their ma and pa not able to take good care of them because they plenty in their family.”—Filipe

“Our children wor happy because they know we wor there to protect them and show them love. We always use to invite brother and sister dem to our house who love Jehovah and wor setting good example in the congregation. This brother and sister dem use to encourage us to do more for Jehovah. And today we can see our children following their good example.”—Carlos

What benefit yor na get because yor decide to not born plenty children?

“It help us to provide the thing dem our family need to live. I wor having one job da wor paying me plenty money. But three years na pass since I lost da job. Because we not born plenty children, it wor not hard for us to take care of our family even though I wor not making plenty money again.”—Jeremias

“Because we decide to not born plenty children, we wor able to take good care of our children and help them to get good friendship with Jehovah. We wor also able to go help with the preaching work to area where they not get plenty publishers. It wor easy for us to spent time with each of our children. All our children dem serving Jehovah and they still looking for way to do more for him.”—Lenadi

Wetin you want tell other parents?

“I na see da what Psalm 34:10b say da true. It say: ‘Those seeking Jehovah will lack nothing good.’ Jehovah na give our family all the thing dem we need.”—Rafael

a The husband and the wife can decide how many children they will born, what time they will born them, and whether they will use birth control da can’t spoil belly. Nobody mon judge them for their decisions. (Rom. 14:4, 10-13) Beside da one, when the husband and wife making this decision dem, they mon remember the advice in 1 Corinthians 7:3-5.

b The “children” this verse talking about da some of the people dem da John help to learn the truth. But parents can feel the same way about their own children who serving Jehovah.