Mother’s Day is coming up this Sunday. This is your opportunity to honor Mom, please treat her special and especially on Sunday. This will be an especially heavy day for my wife and I as we both lost our moms within about a week of each other. We have a special comfort in knowing they are both in heaven.
A teacher had just given her 2nd grade class a special lesson on magnets. Now came the questions to test what they had learned. She asked the class, “My name starts with an M and I pick up things. What am I?” A little boy shot up his hand and said, “YOU are a mother!” (author unknown) I think I have written about our Moms before!
There is a great deal of pressure on Moms today! It’s a tough job. She is expected to have a successful career, raise perfect children, keep the chickens fed, the eggs gathered and the garden picked.
She with the branding and sorting. She plows the fields, and she drives the grain truck to the elevator. She tries to keep the house spotless; the laundry done, cook three meals, and look like she just finished modeling somewhere like New York City! You Dads out there, we better appreciate the mother of our children, and appreciate your own mom, too!!!
Moms have a great deal of pressure on them these days, but it is really nothing new. Eve was blamed for the original sin. She was the first mother and one of her sons murdered his brother.
And then, there was Hagar, Abraham’s handmaiden; she had a son by him. He sent her away along with their boy, Ishmael—and they almost died in the desert.
Jochebed was the mother of Moses. The Egyptians were killing all male Hebrew babies to curb a population problem. So, she placed Moses in a basket and let the baby loose on the river, trusting that he would be found and saved.
And there was Mary. Her firstborn child, the Son of God, was born in a barn. They fled to Egypt to escape Herod. At 12, Jesus was left behind. He was found teaching in the Temple.
And later, there were certain Jewish leaders who wanted her son dead. And there was His trial and crucifixion. His body was placed in a tomb, but on the third day, He arose! Awesome!
There was A mother who had a daughter who was demonpossessed. She had faith that Jesus could heal her daughter. Look at what Jesus tells her, in verse 28: Then Jesus said to her, “O woman, your faith is great; it shall be done for you as you wish.” And her daughter was healed at once.
This is interesting because she was a Gentile Canaanite woman. She was not of the house of Israel. But she had faith! Mama’s faith was great! And Jesus healed her daughter!
Because of her faith she was willing to break through whatever barriers were holding her back. She had a great need to help her child. It was evident that she loved her child. And she saw that Jesus had a compassion that through her faith would cause Him to respond to her daughter’s condition.
Turn your eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, and the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.
This mom could have given up. We see in the scripture there were at least 3 things that could have caused her to give up. At first, Jesus was silent, she wasn’t Jewish, and she made no claim to have earned what Jesus had to offer. She relied fully on the GRACE of Jesus.
Moms, it is important to have great faith in Christ!!! This also applies to Dads and the children!
Happy Mother’s Day! Choose Jesus, choose life! And find a Bible believin’ church where you “fit in” and know, grow, and follow Christ! Tell others! See y’all at church and keep PRAYIN’ for HIS HARVEST! And y’all KEEP PRAYIN’ for RAIN! Amen.