Your Kids are on what altar?

2 Kings 6:28-29

“And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.”

Reading this passage has always been so disturbing to me. Overwhelming so.

I never understood how a parent could literally feed their child to someone else and feed on them themselves. How could they just turn them over like that? No fight?

The lack of resolution in the story has also always troubled me. The mother didn’t regret the boiling of her son, she was angry because the other mother was filled with regret, changed her mind, and hid her son. She was angry because the other mother saw that she was about to make a terrible mistake. She was angry because the other mother said “no, you’re not getting my child.”

How many people are offering their children up every day, in the same way? No fight.

Just gift wrapping them for the world.

Letting others devour them.

Offering their children up on altars of convenience and selfishness…altars of laziness and pleasure.

No regret.

Just anger when other parents aren’t willing to do the same, just anger when another parent says NO to sacrificing their child.

Just anger when another parent chooses to say NO to the”norms.”

Just because someone tells you it’s normal, or that this is your best option, or that kids are a burden, doesn’t mean you have to believe them. It doesn’t mean you stop fighting.

It doesn’t mean you just shrug and let things happen.

You fight.

You say “No.”

You stand in between those who would devour your children, no matter the cost.

These are your children.

This is your family.

Act like it.

The enemy doesn’t have to get them. Don’t make it easy. The only altar they should be on is in the house of God.

Don’t give up.

Don’t surrender.

The enemy can’t have your family unless you let him. You kids can’t be devoured until you consent.

It’s time to get bold.

Are they not worth the fight?