Daily Devotions

This coming Sunday is Mothering Sunday, not to be confused with the American Mother's Day. So, this week we are going to take a look at how the Bible speaks about the Maternal characteristics of God.

One of the old lectionary readings for Mothering Sunday had the verse that says "But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all," (Galatians 4: 26)

So where shall we start out on our Godly Mothering journey? In Isaiah 66:13 we find the prophet voicing, “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.” We may ask, is it so strange to consider God as mother as well as father for in Genesis 1 we read, “God created humanity in God’s own image, in the divine image God created them, male and female God created them.” In fact, I recently read, that we should consider ‘the Mother heart of the Father God.’

Another writer put it this way, “God is our number-one-cheerleader, the comforter who gives peace when we cannot find it, and the lavish table-setter who urges us to take a second helping.

It should not surprise us that in our heavenly Father experiences we will discern the maternal love for God’s sons and daughters. As the Creator, God is the source of all good things and true motherhood is certainly a good thing. When God ordained the human family it was clearly determined that it was not good for a man to be alone. From the one, God made two. The beautiful mystery of marriage is that the two will become one again. The oneness of marriage can be expressed in many ways but perhaps the ultimate expression of oneness is the conception and birth of a child. A family that flourishes as a result of the loving impartation of a godly father and mother has always been God’s strategy for fulfilling His purposes on the earth.
 
This is obviously true in a natural family. It is also true in a spiritual family. We need both powerful spiritual fathers and mothers to raise the family of God. We need both aspects of the heart of God in our journey of faith.

In the Name of Love, we have come.

In the Name of Love, we are here.

And, in the Name of Love we will go.

Knowing in our Hearts and in our Souls

that what we have experienced is truly Divine. Amen