Now, let me remind you that our children are like Cupid's arrows - designed to hit the heart and draw that apparent enemy to God. But unlike the true enemy, they are redeemable. He also uses people whose minds have been captured by the wiles of the devil. His army is made up of demons who infiltrate the minds of men. We all understand that our ultimate enemy is Satan.
#Bible verse about children like arrows in a quiver full#
What a fool to stand before your enemy with a quiver full of bent and dull arrows. Children who have been shaped, sharpened, and honed for God's intended purpose are a weapon against the adversary, and cause the father not to be ashamed as he stands before the enemy. Of course, the context speaks of a man who has a quiver full of children. Psalm 127:5 says, "Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate." This pictures a mighty man who confidently stands at the gate of his enemies and speaks, because his quiver is full. As they are sanctified into God's image, they become a weapon in this warfare in which we fight. The shaping, sharpening, and the honing are all a part of sanctification. Only God can do the transforming reconstructive surgery that takes place at salvation but He chooses to use godly parents to be involved in the process of being conformed into His image. Though our children were created in the image of God because of Adam's sin they came into this world as deformed images of God.
When we do not shape, sharpen, and hone them for God's intended purpose we are derelict of our responsibility. In other words, our children are not ours. Psalm 127:3 states, ""Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD and the fruit of the womb is His reward". Unlike arrows, which are meant to kill the intended target God intends our children to be like cupid's arrow, drawing the target to the love of God. From the time we bring them home from the hospital, those little arrows must be shaped, sharpened, and honed to carry out God's purpose - the redemption of mankind. God intended for our children to fly straight and hit God's target. Like arrows, God intended children to be released from our homes so they can have a spiritual impact on our world in the spiritual battle we fight.
The makers of arrows painstakingly design them to accurately fly straight and hit their target. Psalm 127:4 tells us that children are like arrows. Each warrior was responsible to shape, sharpen, and hone the arrows in his quiver. They utilized armor and weapons to fight the enemy. " Mighty men" in the Old Testament is a description given to those engaged in warfare. Psalm 127:4 states, "As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man so are children of the youth".
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