Al Mohler always has keen insights into cultural issues and how a believer should view new happenings as they occur. Yesterday he responded to a report from England that many single women are now becoming mothers through artificial insemination — and at much earlier ages (20s and early 30s) than ever before. The entire blog is worth reading, but he concludes with this statement:
Our cultural obsession with a false ideal of personal autonomy promises us all that we can have whatever we want, and on our own terms. This sad report serves to remind us that, left to our own, we will try to create our own reality and have what we want without accepting what we really need.
Fathers are missing from this picture, but so is something even more fundamental — God’s gift of marriage and the glory of God evident in the perfection of His gifts.
Words of Grace 