As the calendar points our mind to Mother’s Day, we reflect on the influence of mothers. Mothers come in all shapes and sizes. Some are loving and kind, others not so much. Yet, even if they are gone, their influence is strong and lasting. Many children will embrace their mother’s training, some will rebel against it. Even in rebelling, they are responding to her influence. Is there a more important job than motherhood?
As we read the words of puritan Thomas Manton regarding the educating of children in the fear and knowledge of the Lord, we see the vast importance of mothers. May each one do their duty from love to God and their children; her impact is of eternal value.
“Especially women should be careful of this duty; because as they are most about their children, and have early and frequent opportunities to instruct them, so this is the principal service they can do to God in this world, being restrained from more publick work. And doubtless many an excellent magistrate hath been sent into the Commonwealth, and many an excellent pastor into the Church, and many a precious saint to heaven, through the happy preparations of a holy education, perhaps by a woman that thought herself useless and unserviceable to the Church.”
Alistair Begg rightly points to the fact that motherhood, taken seriously, cannot take a backseat to anything:
“Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do.”
Being a mother is certainly not for the selfish or faint of heart. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons so many today are opting to not have children, as our first Decency Minute script describes. I urge you to read an excellent article on the subject by my co-worker Lisa Van Houten that we published earlier this week.
In closing, I would like to say that I am grateful for my mother and her commitment to Proverbs 22:6. “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Children are a blessing, but for many generations now, leftists have succeeded in convincing our culture that they are a drain instead. For years, we’ve been warned that the West’s plummeting birth rates will be devastating, particularly as Islamic families continue to reproduce at healthy, sustaining birth rates.
Largely, that warning has gone unheeded until recently when Elon Musk posted on X: (quoting) “Low birth rates will end civilization.”
What Musk and others miss is this: It’s not just about giving birth to more children; it’s about building healthy families. Strong families founded on Biblical principles are what shaped and stabilized Western civilization and that’s what it will take, by God’s grace, to pull us out of this nosedive.
May we commit to the costly work of self-sacrifice, from start to finish, in having children AND discipling them, teaching them the fear and love of the Lord.
What’s the Difference Between Tylenol and Mifepristone?
Abortion proponents ridiculously claim that taking the abortion pill, mifepristone, is as safe as Tylenol. The difference is, Tylenol gets rid of pain, while the abortion pill gets rid of a baby. Yet now we also know that in addition to killing the unborn, it’s also dangerous for women.
A massive study reveals that more than one in ten women who take the abortion drug suffer life-threatening complications such as sepsis or hemorrhaging.
This do-it-yourself abortion pill is used for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S.
Pro-life leaders are calling on President Trump to reconsider the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. Add your voice to those seeking to protect both the unborn and their mothers. Call the White House and urge President Trump to restrict this deadly drug. Call 202-456-1111.
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Some thoughts on mothers:
“My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.” ~ George Washington
“The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.” Dwight L. Moody
“There is more power in a mother’s hand than in a king’s scepter.” ~ Evangelist Billy Sunday
“I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
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