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The place of children in God's plan
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We know that children are important to God ... But how are they specifically part of the divine plan?
How does the Word of God regard children?
Let's learn to love and look at children as God loves and considers them!

• Children were part of God’s plan for humanity in the beginning.

The first chapter of the Bible shows us that God wanted man and woman to be fruitful, to multiply and to fill the earth. This means that the birth of children was part of God’s plan from the beginning.

Children are a blessing from God.
By giving humans the power to multiply, God grants them the extraordinary grace to bring into the world beings who are images of God.


• God is involved in the conception and birth of children.

In Psalm 139, David meditates on how God formed him while he was in his mother's womb.
Our Lord is the one who gives life to children.
Eve cried in wonder at the birth of her first son, “I have brought forth a man with the help of the Lord.
"(Genesis 4.1)


• In God's plan, children were supposed to… grow up!

The mission of mankind is to fill the earth and subdue it.
This work cannot be accomplished by children: the child is therefore called to grow so that God's plan may be fulfilled!
The Bible does not make childhood a value in itself (compare 1 Corinthians 13:11 and Peter Pan's ideal of never growing up!).

We find a pattern in what is said of the infant Jesus in the Gospel: “And Jesus increased in wisdom, in stature and in grace, before God and before men.
"(Luke 2.52) The child must grow and develop in all that he is (physically, spiritually, socially, etc.).

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