Mother

“There is a generation that curses its father, and does not bless its mother.” (Proverbs 30:11)

In the 1996 Albert Brooks comedy Mother, a neurotic, twice-divorced science fiction writer moves back in with his mom to solve his personal problems. While the movie is funny, we live in The Matrix Reloaded generation that curses its fathers and does not bless its mothers. Thanks to the feminists, the title and profession of mother has been belittled and desecrated. But the truth is God holds mothers in high esteem and expects us to do the same and love our mothers not just on Mother’s Day, but every day.

A mother plays an important role because she normally spends much more time with the children than the father in their early and impressionable years. Mothers have so much more influence in shaping them for the future, either for good or evil. A good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters and an old Spanish proverb says that an ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. When Napoleon, alarmed at the moral decay of his day and bad economic conditions, was asked, ‘What does France need most?’ he answered, ‘Mothers.’

Motherhood is a noble calling of God, and every mother is called by God to shape the future leaders of history. When her baby is born, God deposits in The Core of her being the power of influence unlike any other. She has the God-given power to effect her children for great good and to become all that He designed for them to be. In Proverbs 1:8 we see that it is the mother who reinforces the instruction of the father as law to the children. “My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother.”

Because she is with her children throughout the day, she is constantly defining for them what is right and wrong. Proverbs 29:15 tells us that “a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.” Therefore, she will do her best to restrain her children and teach them not to follow their own inclinations. She will not spoil, pamper nor indulge them, but discipline them, knowing that if she fails, they will bring her future reproach and shame. Proverbs 15:20 says a foolish man despises his mother because raising a foolish child causes her much sorrow and grief.

The love of a mother for her baby is the strongest attachment in the world, but the love of God for us is immeasurably more. She nourishes and loves the baby because he or she is a part of her own being. She feels great compassion and tenderness and cannot part from her child, especially when she is breastfeeding and her own breasts remind her of her obligation to supply nourishment for her own body. Even though she may be difficult at times, her children will rise up and call her blessed.(Proverbs 31:28) Ezekiel 16:44 says “Like mother, like daughter.”

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