![]() Now ultimately of course, our children are responsible as individuals before their heavenly Father for the flight they take and the mark they make. God once said of Abraham, “For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice…” ( Genesis 18:19). To count for something in God’s great scheme of things. Our children were designed by their Creator to make an impact on the world. But the time is coming - coming very soon, in fact - when they will be released. Our home is a merely a means to prepare them and mold them and straighten and balance them. David said, “Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth.” They were never intended to stay within the four walls of our home. You might say that arrows were made to be released. The quiver is just a vehicle that carries them until they are ready for release. They were never intended to stay in a quiver. James uses his arrows for target practice, for hunting. And each of them is being molded, balanced, and readied for flight in our home. But they’re also very similar because each of them was fashioned and crafted by the Lord God. ![]() They have different looks, different interests, different personalities. They’re all very different from one another. It’s Father’s Day, and I am reminded today that I am blessed to be the father of three children - Charity, Amber and Joshua. They’re all intended for maximum impact on that target. Some for hunting fish, some for birds, some for large game.īut arrows are also very similar - each has been carefully fashioned and crafted, molded and balanced. ![]() Some are designed for target competition, others are designed for hunting. They can have different tips, they can be different lengths. Some have plastic vanes, others have actual feathers. It’s easy to see that they can be quite different from one another. He had to work this morning, but he has been kind enough to share with me a few of his arrows. Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them They shall not be ashamed, but shall speak with their enemies in the gate.” ( Psalm 127:3-5) Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth. A really good source to check here is Apocalypse Explained 357, stating in subsection 12 (in some translations).“Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward. In some places in the Word, an arrow can also have a negative meaning - where it is falsity destroying truth, and a bow is the doctrine from falsity. The sons of Ephraim, being armed, shooters of the bow, turned back in the day of battle ( Psalms 78:9). That the spiritual man was in old time called a “shooter” and an “archer,” and that doctrine was called a “bow” and a “quiver,” and that the truths of doctrine, or rather doctrinal matters, were called “darts,” “shafts,” and “arrows,” is further evident in David: The truths by which the man of the spiritual church defends himself, and respecting which he disputes, are from the doctrine which he acknowledges. The man of the spiritual church was formerly called a “shooter of the bow,” because he defended himself by truths, and disputed about truths differently from the man of the celestial church, who is secure by means of good, and does not dispute about truths (see above, n. "And he became a shooter of the bow." That this signifies the man of the spiritual church, is evident from the signification of a “shaft,” “dart,” or “arrow,” as being truth and from the signification of a “bow,” as being doctrine (see above, n. In Arcana Coelestia 2709, it says this when discussing Genesis 21:20: In the Word, arrows stand for truths which defend person from falsity.
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