What a blessing it is to be a Mother...What kind of Mother does he want us to be?
Is there any higher calling for a woman than being a Mother? To be handed these gifts from above, intrusted to raise them? What a huge honor, responsibility, and Joy.
John 16:21 When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for the joy that a human being has been born into the world.
We talked about this a little last time we met, and how blessed we are because we truly enjoy our children. We love to be them, we all make sacrifices to be with them as much as we can. What a gift to know how precious our children are, and to not take that gift for granted. Some parents do not enjoy being with their children, and we do not understand that.
In Psalm 127:3 it says “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, (inherited from), the fruit of the womb, a reward. Like arrows in the hands of warrior are the children of ones youth.
So not only does God say that they are inherited to us from him, a gift, a reward, also they are like arrows in the hands of warriors. Which is pretty powerful, our kids are like arrows in the hands of warriors. We are the warriors, and how important it is to raise our children, who are given to us by God, in his way. To insure that our children will live a life full of Gods Love, Grace, and have a purposeful and joyous life. What a huge responsibility he has given us as a Mother.
In the Bible God says he wants us to be available to our children all the time.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 And these words that I command you today shall be on your ear. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk to them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you like down, and whey you rise.
Deuteronomy 4:10-How on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me. Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on earth, and that they may teach their children so.
What does it mean to fear the Lord?
Provers 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him. (Folly means lack of good sense.)
In the Bible there are good examples of being a Mother who is faithful. Mary who was the mother to Jesus. Hannah, was the Mother to the prophet Samuel, she longed to have a child, and told God that if he gave her a son she would dedicate him to the Lord, Naomi was the Mother-in-law to Ruth. Elizabeth was the Mother of John the babtist. Also inn the Bible it speaks of Lois who was faithful to god and passed her faith onto Eunice, who influenced her son Timothy to follow God, who then preached the Gospel. The faith we instill in our children are a legacy, that they will pass on.
I read once that a Mother who loves God, will not worry about how much money their child makes when they are adults, but instead how faithful they will be, and what they will do for the Kingdom. I like that. I know we want our children to be able to take care of themselves, but we know that true happiness comes from giving your life to God. Not from money. We all want our children to be happy. The only way to true happiness is through him. He is the way. Not their career, house, car, etc. It is our job as a Mother to make sure they know that. We love our children so much, we are here to show them God's love, to teach and encourage them to follow the Lord.
I have from experience seen what a difference it has made in adults to have that foundation as a child. There is a knowledge and peace about them that stands out. It is as if they know a secret that those who have grown up not in the word do not know. Something that you don't understand, until you come to that place yourself. I did not get there myself until I was an adult. Think about the believers who grew up in a home that made knowing God a priority, are they different? I am thinking right now, and I can say for sure YES! The people I am thinking of are great witnesses to how growing up in a Godly home can make your life so much more joyous and peaceful. Praise God that our children will know his love and peace.
It is very simple our children are a gift from God, and our gift to our children is to show them the Love of God.
We also need to realize that even though we take our children to church, read them the Bible, and counsel them on how to handle situations. How we act is such an influence on them. We can tell them to live a Godly life and how important it is, but if we are not doing that ourselves this can be very confusing to our children. For example we tell them not to have fear or worry, but we may be faced with a situation ourselves where we should be putting our full trust in the Lord and we don't. Or we tell them how important it is to love everyone and not judge, but they hear us talking bad about a stranger or even a friend. We teach them to be slow to anger like the Bible says, but we get mad if someone cuts in front of us while we are driving. We teach them that our body is a temple of God, and that we need to take care of it and then they see us eat 2 dozen cookies. We tell them that knowing God will bring joy to their life, but they may see us being grumpy and sad for no reason. I think it is most important to be a good example for them. Actions speak louder than words.
We have to be their example of how when God's love is inside of you that you are different. You are full of the Holy Spirit and Joyful. Show them by example how you want their life to be. They will learn how to be parents from us. They will learn how to treat their husbands and wives from us, from how we do it, more so than how we tell them to do it.
See being a Mother is the hardest, funnest, and most important thing we will do in this life. We know from last time we met that we have a job of making disciples. How important is it to raise disciples?
1 Corinthians 11:1
“Be imitators of me, just as I also am of Christ”
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