CELEBRATING OUR MOTHERS
Each year in May we celebrate our mothers. We thank God for our mothers. We all have a mother. On Mother’s Day we honour our mothers, to those who mothered us, grandmothers and the mothers of our children, our wives, and the mothers of our grandchildren.
The role of a mother is a lifetime task, which cannot be confined to one day a year. In fact, every day is Mother’s Day.
However, Mother’s Day is set aside as a day for remembering what our mothers have done and are doing for us and our families.
I do not believe that anything has ever been said or ever will be said that is eloquent enough, or expressive enough to articulate the true value of a mother...
In Proverbs 31, the author sums up a mother’s task. She sows, shops, cooks, gardens, cares for the family.
“She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.”
“Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.”
WHAT’S THAT OLD SAYING? "Man works from sun to sun, but woman’s work is never done."
Many authors have written poems and stories in paying tribute to their mothers.
John Milton wrote,
“Grace was in all her steps,
Heaven in her eye.
In every gesture dignity and love”
Thomas Edison once said, “I did not have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence which has lasted all my life. The good effects of her early training I can never lose. If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never likely have become an inventor. I was always a careless boy, and with a mother of different mental calibre, I should have turned out badly. But her firmness, her sweetness, her goodness, were potent powers to keep me in the right path. My mother was the making of me. The memory of her will always be a blessing to me.”
What a loving tribute to a blessed mother.
All of the other qualities of the godly mother are hinged on this one quality, LOVE, Love is the major driving force in the godly mother, not only a love for their children, not only a love for their husband, godly mothers must have a deep and unswerving love for God, this love is what motivates and develops the rest of the love that is in their life, without the love for God - the rest of their life and love will be incomplete.
An epitaph on his wife’s tombstone written by her husband after 60 years of marriage, read, "SHE ALWAYS MADE HOME HAPPY."
That’s love. That’s a mother in the true sense.
For ‘Love’ is fuel for life
When life gets rough - love gives strength
When life gets tough - love gives power
When life lets you down - love gives encouragement
When life seems empty - love gives meaning
When life gets mundane - love gives enthusiasm
When life seems sad - love gives joy
When life gets confusing - love gives clarity
That love is demonstrated to us in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Who is our ultimate mother? Is it mother earth? My wife Marge spoke to an old Bushman woman in Botswana in Southern Africa, she looked ancient with wrinkled face and wise eyes, and when asked through two interpreters whether she knew God…She replied by tapping the ground next to her saying “I know God, He is here”.
Who is our ultimate mother? Our ultimate mother is our Heavenly Father. God is our Heavenly Father and our Heavenly Mother. HE IS OUR PERFECT PARENT WITH ALL THE QUALITIES NEEDED TO BRING US INTO PERFECT MATURITY.
He is both director and nurturer:
The hand pointing forward and the other hand guiding us from the back. Our conscience that convicts us and the grace that saves us.
The mighty warrior and the tender person with children around Him.
Some of us only see God in His Father role but let us never forget that He is all to us, he is our heavenly Father, but He is also our heavenly Mother.
Happy Mother’s Day
