Biblical morality has the good of children at heart. We see God’s heart for children in every moral precept He established. Sexual immorality, the most selfish of sins, victimizes children. And beware! The God of the Bible is consistently portrayed as the avenger of innocent victims (Deuteronomy 10:17, 18). We are told in His Word that if our religion is pure, we, like God, will help such victims, while keeping ourselves unspotted by sin (James 1:27).
God gave us marriage and the home as soon as He had made us male and female (Genesis 2). His gift of sex cements the bond of marital love, providing the secure environment in which children can grow from helplessness to usefulness. For such a gift to bless us, God had to establish moral parameters. But Satan, ever the tempter, suggests that, in establishing moral restrictions, God is withholding some good from us. And too many people believe him.
But when God thundered from Mt. Sinai, “Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not covet . . . thy neighbour’s wife” (Exodus 20:14, 17), He was looking out for our children. Did you know that 80% of murders grow out of the jealousy ignited by some form of immorality? When we indulge God’s gift of sex while rejecting His moral restraints, the home becomes a shambles, hatred grows where God planted love, and children are scared whom God meant to be secure and happy.
God afflicts the conscience of the young man who fails in personal purity, and leaves him feeling vile. Heed your conscience, men! Avoid greater sin, and avert the wrath of God.
Our “wicked and adulterous generation” (to quote Jesus–Matthew 16:4) plans not to have children, and kills those that are conceived. Many children that survive birth bear the physical and mental scars of their mothers’ addictions. Others, born healthy, fall victim to the immoral lifestyles that our “sexual revolution” and “new morality” afflicted them with. It would seem that men and women today hate children, but . . .
Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world.
Red, brown, yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
And because He loves children, God gave us His moral laws. Jesus died for all the children of the world, but He died for their parents too. If you are burdened with the guilt of moral sin, the blood Jesus shed on the cross can wash that sin away. For faith and repentance, you can become a new creature in Christ Jesus—a moral person, and one who may well be able to mend the hurts you once caused by your moral transgressions.
–Dallas Witmer