How We Have Used the Ten Commandments to Raise 15 Children
by Charles F. Wysong, Jr., President, American Rights Coalition, 800-634-2224
Brenda and I rejoice in the blessings of a large family. We have fifteen children—no adoptions, no twins. We are now 25 strong. It is our privilege to raise children to love and serve God. Psalm 127:5, “Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them” is true today as it was the day God inspired it to be written.
Before we were married, we made two important decisions. One, Brenda would not work outside our home after we had children, and second we would do nothing to prevent the conception of children. We wanted to obey the command to “present your bodies a living sacrifice” Romans 12:1, and leave the number of children we had to God’s wisdom. It is by faith that we have trusted that He will not test us above what we can bear — and He has not.
We have raised our children using the Ten Commandments. In Deuteronomy 11:18-21 God promises us, as parents, that our days and the days of our children would be “as the days of heaven upon the earth,” if we would do these three things:
1. Meditate on and follow God’s law ourselves,
2. Teach His law to our children daily, and,
3. Display His law, specifically, the Ten Commandments, in our home.
One day I looked back on the failures of my home, and I realized that we didn’t have a copy of the Ten Commandments displayed in our home, we were not teaching them to our children on a daily basis, and Brenda and I were not meditating on them. We were not doing even one of the three things that God said we were to do to have a home that was “like heaven on earth.”
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Mr. Wysong pioneered the effort to help women sue abortion clinics for malpractice. Since beginning this effort, the number of abortion clinics nationwide has dropped from 2000 in 1986 to fewer than 750 in 2007. If you would like to talk to him about this program, or you have an abortion problem, or want to schedule him to speak, call him at 1-800-634-2224. Or write him at: American Rights Coalition, P.O. Box 22188, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37422.