Children are a precious gift from God, but much anxiety comes with them.
Sin is there, let our prayers begin to attack it.
Our cries for our offspring should precede those cries which betoken their actual advent into a world of sin. Never must we cease to pray until they cease to breathe. No case is hopeless while Jesus lives. The Lord sometimes suffers His people to be driven into a corner that they may experimentally know how necessary He is to them. Ungodly children, when they show us our own powerlessness against the depravity of their hearts, drive us to flee to the strong for strength, and this is a great blessing to us.