Stop Being Easily Offended by the Truth.

JD Vance is right and people need to suck it up. This article points out the degradation of our society. Our society is so narcissisticly driven that it considers having many children bad. Instead our country seeks to be like that "cat lady" because cats are easy. Anyone can set out food and water and kitty litter for the weekend so that you can selfishly indulge your ways. Our own LCMS has a distinct problem in being the "oldest" denomination in the U.S. The statistics are startling as to how many LCMS members are parents!

Our own synod needs to pay attention to what Vance is saying because children are a gift from the Lord, indeed he calls for man to have a quiver of them! For example then, we need to stop personifying our pets. They are pets, not children. They do not have souls and there is no promise that Lassie will be with you in heaven.

Now there is no doubt that many are struggling with loneliness by not having your children around anymore. The solution is not to be deceived to think that your pet is a good surrogate. It is definitely not comfort dogs. Stop it. Instead, go be near your children and spend time with your grandchildren or help your church's young families so that they may be encouraged to have more children! Children do not put your parents in a nursing home, but in your own home and in so doing each will be built up. 

We need to stop being offended by the truth. Our Synod President, Rev. Matthew Harrison, was not wrong when he said a few years ago that we need to start having more babies.  Sometime (or is it most times?) The truth is hardest to hear. The great prophet, Jeremiah, was probably one of the most disliked prophets. Not because he was mean, but because he spoke the truth. His time as prophet spanned many decades and he saw his nation go from the top of prosperity to the pits of despair when Jerusalem was leveled. 

He warned, from the beginning of his prophecies, "Amend your ways and your deeds." Repent. Turn from your sin, and believe in the Lord God with your whole heart. The message today is no different. The call to repentance and to know the error of your sin is for one purpose, that you may receive the forgiveness of sins. 

Jesus died for the sins of the world. Why would you reject it? For the satisfaction of your made up "truths"? May it never be! Stop being offended and hear the Word of the Lord.