It’s Mother’s Day!
Some motherly advice …
At times it may be difficult to get the attention of your children … if that happens just try this …
The quickest way for a mother to get the attention of her children is to sit down and look comfortable.
At other times you may want some “alone time” …
Mothers can have a few minutes to themselves at the end of the day by doing the dishes.
Mothers are human but many variations
Some are awesome
Some are cruel
Some are Godly
Some are atheists
Most are somewhere in between
KL’s experience with Mother’s Day - As a young mother she would come home from church defeated because she would compare her mothering skills (which were very good) with those described by the special speaker of the day. She would be depressed …
The effectiveness of the mother is
Enhanced by the father if he is a good father
Frustrated by the father if he is a poor father
Enhanced by the presence of God in the home
Frustrated by the absence of God in the home
Enhanced or frustrated by the personality of the child
Illustration:
A mother may have two children; one compliant and one unruly. If the same mother took the compliant child to a store people might say, “She must be a very good mother! Look how well her child behaves.” But on another day she might take the unruly child to the same store and oberservers might say, “That woman is a terrible mother! Look how her child behaves!”
Same Mom different child …
But, mothers, good or bad, would not be mothers without children.
So, today let’s take a Biblical look at children.
Psalm 127:3 says,
“Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from Him.”
Children are a heritage (or gift) from the LORD.
Children are a miracle.
Researched possibility of evolution of male/female reproduction
Irreducible complexity
The human body is so complex that it makes an automobile look like a child’s toy in comparison. Irreducible complexity states that when a system is so complex that the failure or absence of one tiny part makes the system inoperable then it could not have evolved by one tiny mutation at a time over millions or billions or trillions of years!
The male reproductive system is such a system
How on earth did “nature” ever cause …
Every cell in the human body has 46 chromosomes … that is except for one unique cell type in women and another totally different cell type in men. Each of these unique cells only has 23 chromosomes which compliment the 23 chromosomes in the unique cell of the other gender! And then when these two unique cells meet they combine to make one complete human cell which contains all of the information necessary to become an entire human being! How did such a miracle happen?
Children are a miracle from the Lord!
And then … once that entire cell is created how does it survive until birth? It needs to get oxygen and nutrition somehow or it will die. How did “nature” ever devise a system where the unborn child could receive nutrition and oxygen from the mother without interconnecting their circulatory systems??? It is incredible but the interface (womb and placenta) is so created that the exchange of nutrition and oxygen is successful without every interconnecting the circulatory system of the mother and the child! AND this system automatically disconnects a the time of birth! That is amazing! That is a miracle!
Children are a miracle from the Lord!
And then … when the child is born a food source for the baby is automatically activated on the mom! What awesome planning! How could all of this have happened by random chance?
To say that the creative process of birth is a miracle is a mind blowing understatement!
Children are a heritage (or gift) from the LORD!
Two becoming one flesh in our children - AMAZING!
Religions of humanism and evolution have caused even some Christians to forsake the amazing miracle of the creations of God!
So, we see that children are a gift from God but when did, children, the gifts from God become a burden?
One news report recently estimated that from birth to the age of 18 it will cost $241,080.00 to raise a child. That’s $13,393/yr.
A mixture of godly common sense and thriftiness tells us that such an estimate is ludicrous.
Besides, when did children become a matter of cost-benefit analysis?
Many young people see children as a drag on their lifestyle.
Can’t go out as much
Can’t afford as big a home
Can’t afford a nice a car
Huge inconvenience
Is a child really gift you can’t afford?
Counting the cost! Children are a gift from God. Can you imagine someone bringing you a miraculous gift and you analyzing the gift to see how much it would cost you to receive it?
We are the children of God! Aren’t you glad He didn’t count what it would cost Him when He created us?
Children also give us a small perspective of what the Lord must feel about His children.
Can we get a glimpse of God through our relationship with our children
God gave us free will even though it could kill us
God has created the ideal family as kind of a mini-trinity; God, the human father and the human mother all working in love and harmony with each other.
Now we’ve already said that some kids want to please, some are defiant
But whatever the child’s personality is like we extend parental and godly grace to them
At the same time the world extends rebellion to them
We want them to be saved
The world wants them to be lost
God won’t force us to be saved
We can’t force them to come to Christ or even to be good citizens
All of us who are old enough have seen kids make their own choices. Some choose to follow God and some not.
Just think about the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the Holy Trinity watching over His children.
Children created in His image
Constantly drawing them by His grace and mercy
Sacrificing His Son for them so that they might be forgiven
Here is the hope, Mom.
No matter what spiritual condition your kids are in God never stops calling.
Your child could be sitting on death row, awaiting execution for being a mass murderer but God’s grace could still reach him.
God would still be saying to Him - “Come to me, you who are heavy burden and I will give you rest … you can have life, eternal life thorough My Son, Jesus! … cast all of you cares upon me!”
What an awesome God we serve!
You may have made mistakes raising your children;
I know that I made many raising ours but God is a Redeemer!
He is amazing!
I love the redemptive story of King Josiah!
Wicked Grandfather King Manasseh
2 Kings 21:2
“[Manasseh] did evil in the eyes of the LORD, following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.”
Wicked Father King Amon
2 Kings 21:20-21
“[Amon] did evil in the eyes of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. He followed completely the ways of his father, worshiping the idols his father had worshiped, and bowing down to them.”
How did King Josiah turn out to be righteous?
2 Kings 22:2
“[Josiah] did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and followed completely the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left.”
Josiah became king at the age of eight.
In the eighth year of his reign he began to seek the God of his father David.
What drew him to God?
Was it is mother Jedidah?
Was it what was left of the priesthood?
We don’t know!
Here’s the point of the whole thing.
Psalm 127:3 says,
“Children are a heritage from the LORD, offspring a reward from Him.”
No matter what modern society may say about children, it does not change Word of God, they are still a reward from Him!
No matter if you have a child who is one day old or 72 years old, you are not in this alone in this parenting situation. God is in it with you!!!
God is willing to overcome all obstacles to salvation except one, the free will of the child to reject Him.
The same as it was with you.
There was a time in you life … you had to come to Jesus for salvation by His grace and mercy
If you have a child or children or grandchildren who are away from God. Remember …
Philippians 4:6-7 …
“Do not be anxious about anything (place them in the hands of God), but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
Children are eternal beings making an eternal decision but they are also in the hands of an eternal God who loves them more than you could ever fathom.
Forgetting what is behind …
Be the Mom God would have you to be from this point on
Praying for them
Extending the grace of God to them
Speaking the truth in love
God bless you MOM!!!
