Moms Need The Father
There is one other important relationship all moms need, and that is a relationship with The Father.
Motherhood is a humbling experience. Teething Toddlers have the ability to bring grown men and women to tears in the middle of the night. And what could be more humbling then raising a child, sacrificing everything for them, only to have them grow up to be teenagers who insist they know everything, rebel against you and make bad decisions, and you have no way to stop them.
There are so many moments in motherhood, where all you can simply do is trust The Father and believe that God has a plan. You have to believe that God’s got this, because you sure as heck don’t.
In First Peter 5:7, we are told “Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.” He cares for you, and He cares for your children, because we are all God’s children, and He loves us and will provide for us.
Matthew 6:31-34
31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
My husband and I love this passage and hold firmly to the belief that we cannot borrow worry, we must cast our anxiety on God and trust Him. I often tell myself, they are not our children, but they are His children, and He has blessed us by giving us the opportunity to care for them.
I remember spending hours rubbing my growing belli, contemplating the miracle of it all. We waited to be surprised with the gender for our first child and you know how they say that baby girls are born with all the eggs they will ever have. So while I was in my mother, all my future children were already inside me. And now if this baby is a girl, all of her future children are already inside her?!?! Mind Blown!
That deep contemplation also reminded me that women were made to do this – God made us to be mothers. We are part of a plan. God’s plan. As Jeremiah 1:5 says “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you.”
I hope what I have said today will inspire you to be intentional about who you journey with as a mother. Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, and while it is always nice to be honored and pampered by the men in our lives, it is also an opportunity for us as daughters, mothers and grandmothers, sisters and friends seize the opportunity to celebrate each other and our unique relationship with the women in our lives. Let’s celebrate the sisterhood of Motherhood and praise God for the many blessings he gives us.
Read my previous posts discussing why moms need other moms to Mentor and Journey with them.
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