Blessed Mother’s Day

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On this Friday before Mother’s Day, I’d like to share with you this acrostic with lessons from God’s Word about mothers. I thought about sharing a pretty flower and writing happy and sweet sentiments about Mother’s Day. I decided instead to think about Mother’s Day in light of Romans 12:15, where God teaches us to:

Rejoice with those who rejoice,
and weep with those who weep.
Romans 12:15

I cherish those who do that with me, and I want to do that with you.

Mother’s Day brings pure joy for some, agony for some, and a mixture for others. We all prepare for Mother’s Day with our own sets of joys and sorrows. Some of us will celebrate a Mother’s Day filled only with the joy of our husbands, our wonderful mothers, and our little loving children. Some, like me, will experience their first Mother’s Day with a beloved child no longer on earth with us. Others will have a first Mother’s Day without Mama. Some ache for a better relationship with a child and others for a better relationship with Mama. Because we are all human, the scenarios go on and on.

This I know with assurance: God loves us and cares about each joy and sorrow. One reason He sent Jesus is so that we would know that He understands what it is like to be human. With these thoughts in mind, I share this acrostic today.

M – Moses. When Pharoah’s daughter found the baby Moses in the Nile River, she sent his sister to get his own mother to take care of him. What better nurse could she find?

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter,
“Shall I go and call 
a nurse for you from the Hebrew women
that she may nurse the child for you?” 
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go ahead.”
So the girl went and called the child’s mother.
Genesis 2:7-8

O – Old. Children must not despise their mothers when they are old. Just as a mother has a precious, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to care for her children, a child blessed still to have his or her mother when she is old has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to care for her.

Listen to your father who begot you,
And do not despise your mother
when she is old.
Proverbs 23:22

T – Tent. When Isaac married Rebekah, he took her into his mother Sarah’s tent and was comforted after his mother’s death. A wife and a mother are both blessings. They are not in competition.

Then Isaac brought her
into his mother Sarah’s tent,
and he took Rebekah,
and she became his wife,
and he loved her;
thus Isaac was comforted
after his mother’s death.
Genesis 24:67

H – Honor. When God gave Moses the Ten Commandments, He commanded the Israelites to honor their mothers. How kind God was to honor mothers with that commandment.

Honor your father and your mother,
that your days may be prolonged
in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
Exodus 20:12

E – Eyes. God wants us to honor our mothers with our whole selves, even with our eyes.

The eye that mocks a father
And scorns a mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young eagles will eat it.
Proverbs 30:17

R – Rejoice. We are to let our mothers be glad and to live so that the one who gave birth to us will rejoice.

Let your father and your mother be glad,
And let her rejoice who gave birth to you.
Proverbs 23:25

S – Soul. David said that he had quieted and composed his soul, like a weaned child resting against his mother. What a great gift to a mother is a child of any age who finds rest in his or her mother.

Surely I have composed and quieted my soul;
Like a weaned child rests against his mother,
My soul is like a weaned child within me.
Psalm 131:2

Mother’s Goodnight Kiss
by Mary Cassatt, 1888
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Gift of Honoré and Potter Palmer

Rest in the Lord on this Mother’s Day, as you reflect on the great blessings of being a mother and having a mother.

Older women likewise
are to be . . . teaching what is good,
so that they may encourage the young women
to love their husbands, to love their children,
to be sensible, pure, workers at home, kind,
being subject to their own husbands,
so that the word of God will not be dishonored.
Titus 2:3-5

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