Number 50: May 11, 2006
 
Sunday is Mother’s Day. A holiday invented by Hallmark Cards and the candy and flower industries. Actually, it is a wonderful thing to remember our mother’s for all the pain and sufferings that child-rearing brought to them. One day a year is hardly all the gratitude they deserve for all their efforts and sacrifices trying to train up a child correctly in the middle of a crooked and perverse world. A mother’s work is never done!
 
Proverbs 22:6:
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
 
Remembrance of the love and care and nourishment and tenderness and doctrine that a mother brings to the development of a child is too priceless to try to attach a value to it In fact, Jesus had to rebuke the start of mother worship, something that is rampart today in many religions, while he was on earth.
 
Luke 11:27 and 28:
And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.
But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.
 
Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it! That is a winning combination, a loving mother who understands the Word of God and tries to instill it in their children.
 
Deuteronomy 6:7:
And thou shalt teach them [God’s Word] diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
 
This Mother’s Day, remember those who spend or have spent the necessary time and effort to try to train their children according to the standards of the Word of God. Let’s help make their lives a little easier by easing their burdens and reciprocating the love they have demonstrated throughout their lives. Do something nice and considerate for them. Thank them profusely that they tried to instill the keys to a successful life in their children. Be especially good to those of the household of being a mother not only this Sunday, but every opportunity we get.
 
Galatians 6:10:
As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.