Mothers

 ~ All Women Are Called To Mother ~

 

Introduction ~ God has both masculine and feminine characteristics.  Consider how Jesus cried over Jerusalem: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her!  How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!  See!  Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’” (Matthew 23:37-39, also Luke 13:34-35).

 

Scripture ~ “I thank God, whom I serve with a pure conscience, as my forefathers did, as without ceasing I remember you in my prayers night and day, greatly desiring to see you, being mindful of your tears, that I may be filled with joy, when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.  Therefore, I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.  For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Timothy 1:3-7).

 

Comment ~ As Christians we are all called to be more like Him.  Many who are Christians today were influenced mightily by one of their grandparents.  On this Mother’s Day it is good realize that all women (in fact all Christians) are called to mother the young that they are in contact with.    

 

~ Robert Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE NOW blog.

 

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