if it is a sin, why did i get a blessing?

Question

I consider my baby to be a blessing, but if unmarried sex is a sin, why did God give me such a wonderful blessing?

Answer 1

Every baby is a blessing no matter the circumstance. I also was a very young mother. I had my first child out of wedlock. I was 17 when she was born. (This was nearly 10 years ago. I am now married and I have 3 beautiful children.) God used the experience I went through, he used my sin to help me grow in Him. This isn't to say that the choice to have sex outside of marriage was right. It wasn't! I sinned! But it was through this sin, through my bad choices that God was able to show me His Grace. Everything does happen for a reason, and people are right, there are consequences for our actions. My child is not a consequence. The consequences were not going to Homecoming, or Prom. Not going on that Senior Trip, or going out dancing on the weekends with friends. The consequences were heartbreak when I ended up doing it all alone, facing the real world. The consequence was that I couldn't act like a child any longer because I had one of my own. The consequence was NEVER my child.

You have gotten many good answers, and also many that I do not agree with. Congratulations on your little Angel! May God show you the same Grace and love that He showed me! God Bless!

Answer 2

I am very happy that you consider your child a blessing. However, God does not give babies as a blessing. They are often called gifts from God but in reality it is simply what he made our bodies to do. A baby is the result of having had sex with a man at a particular time of the reproductive cycle.

God is not rewarding your behavior. To your credit, you allowed your child to live instead of having an abortion which was also an option for you.

I hope you continue to consider your child a blessing to you.

Your actions are as you know against the moral codes God has put in place. Sometimes we get some very good things by doing some bad things. It is one way Satan uses to confuse us into believing that we have not sinned. I however am not free of sin either so I can not and will not condemn or approve your actions. Only God can do that.

I wish you and your child all possible good things...including the love of Christ.

Answer 3

You may call it a blessing and a child is, but, you are putting the proverbial cart before the horse, you saying that God gave you something for sinning. Yet, God will not set aside the natural order through your sinning. That is if you have sexual relations without something hindering it, children is the result, or did they not teach you this in sex ed.? You may look at it as a blessing now, and I hope all the rest of that child's life you will do so, but it will not be so, that child needs a father, that child needs both a father and a mother in holy union to know who he or she is, and understand who she or he is and needs that nuturing from both parents to become a whole person - so how can you bring this blessing up whole, without being married - true that does not guarantee that those who are married bring up whole children, but in such troubled times why complicate the issure, why make it harder for the child in times like these.

Yes, children are blessings beyond measure. But how will this child come to know it?

Answer 4

God put in place natural laws. One of them is that if a man and women have sex they may have a child. and I hope your child is enough of a blessing to you that you will be thankful enough to love Him because of it.but the facts are that it rains on the just and the unjust. and David lamented about how the wicked prosper. but rest assured the no matter how good things are here it means nothing as to God really showing anyone favor.the only blessing that counts is the grace and mercy from God that forgives His children of their sins.

Answer 5

Sex before marriage is a sin. There is no getting around that if you believe in the Bible. But God loves you, me, and everyone else. He loves that baby you had, too. He knew every hair on your baby's head before you conceived him or her. He will use you in some way. From your sin, you will become a blessing to someone else. Congratulations on the birth of your baby. They are a treasure, but they grow up quickly. Enjoy the infant times while you can. They will be over before you know it.

Answer 6

Awww! Before I even opened this question I knew what it was going to say! Such a good point!

I'm pregnant at the moment and had unmarried sex with my boyfriend (now husband). He and I both thought we were unable to have children. We're both so blessed!

Answer 7

The sin is not the child and it is not the sex either. The sin is rebellion against Gods way and authority. And the root of that rebellion is your lack of faith in God, for if you had put your faith in him and obey Him (We all sin and fall short of the glory of God, and I am most of all a sinner.) you would have not what you wanted but what He wanted for you. For a man deceives himself when he thinks in his or her heart that they know what is best for themselves and God dose not. God loves us and gave us sex to enjoy and strengthen our affections within the safety of marriage. You would not have to raise a child on your own and your child would have had a father. See how you have harmed your child and yourself. I am not against you and your child I hope you all the blessings under Heaven. As for the blessing of the child and all other blessings for that matter, say time on earth to repent (turn) from our sin (Original Sin in Adam-the cuase of all our sins.) qand except Christ's salvation which He died to give us when in all truth we as human beings are worthy of eternal damnation in Hell, God is simply gracious the rain falls upon the just (Made just or justifyed by Christ's rightiouness and not our own.) and the unjust. (those that refuse4 the Gosple or good news of His Salvation from their sin(s)

Answer 8

Because God sends His rain on the just and the unjust. This demonstrates His love and His mercy. Who knows, maybe someday in the future you may accept His baby, Jesus, as your Lord and Savior.

Answer 9

God has a reason for everything, and you can be forgiven for your sin, but God put that child here for a reason...or it wouldn't be here...God Bless

Answer 10

Thank God for your blessing. Perhaps it was the only way for you to change your path...only God knows.

Perhaps now you can see your purpose. . .and your child has a purpose, too.

Peace be with you.