Mother’s Day is a complicated holiday, like any other holiday, it is a sweet and bitter day for some, and for some it is both sweet and bitter. I remember the feeling of seeing Mother’s Day outdoors, first as a single woman and after the abortion of our first child. Our church had an entrance near the nursery, called a ‘family entrance’, can I use it?Were we a family? Finally, I still used it, almost as an act of defiance. Now, as a mother of 4- and 6-year-olds, I can deeply appreciate someone stopping near this entrance so I don’t have to cross a busy street with my grandchildren. However, at the time, I was dealing with emotions that were not influenced by practical reality, I just wanted to be a mother. And this sign at the entrance to the church reminded me that I wasn’t a mother.
It is a problem of centuries in humanity in general, and in Christianity in particular How do you honor someone who has something good that you want ?, How do you applaud someone’s sacrifices without minimizing the suffering of others?I don’t know exactly, but I think there’s a general principle that’s useful here.
- Motherhood is not the highest good of the Christian woman.
- Whether you are a mother or not.
- Do not get carried away by a sentimentality that makes the role of mother sacred.
- The highest good is conforming to the image of Christ.
- Well.
- Motherhood is certainly one of God’s main tools in his arsenal for this purpose in relation to women.
- But this is not the end in itself.
- Being a mother doesn’t make you holy.
- Believe me Being a mother exposes all the ways you are a sinner.
- Not a saint.
- Not being a mother and wanting to be a mother does too.
- One may wish to get pregnant for a long time.
- Looking at motherhood in the distance.
- God sanctifies us with this desire.
- We can lose a pregnancy or a child and mourn the loss of our motherhood.
- God conforms us to Christ also through this.
- We can have many children of different ages.
- And God knows how much He exposes the sins of our hearts in this way.
- Is it the highest good.
- That is.
- Conforming to the image of Christ? take the image of God that he created so that we carry the grace of the Gospel.
- And God uses both the presence and absence of sons in the lives of his daughters as an important tool to conform us to Christ.
A single woman who sees her biological clock turned, I encourage you to look at your desires today through the prism of the Gospel, you do not need to deny your desire or tell yourself that you have a happy attitude towards all the good things you have can do without the children No problem to regret the lack. God said children are a blessing, but after the fall, not everyone will know this blessing. The gospel makes all the difference. Even if you are deeply disappointed and this disappointment is real, one day you will be sitting with Jesus in heaven deeply happy with his work in you through this. In paradise, you won’t want something you didn’t have. Don’t be disappointed. Trust this hope to support you.
Married woman who suffers from infertility, I encourage you with similar words, people may be insensitive to her words, especially in the church, but believe with confidence that God, right now, loves you with a deep love, you can feel distant from him. Knowing that he has the power to give you that dear baby he gave so many people around you, he may seem to make a wish for you, provoking you with him, but you understand that un fulfilled desire is a tool God uses to give you even better things, things about you that you can’t easily know. Confidently believe that this time is not only a goalless expectation, but also a blessing, albeit disguised, because it increases your strength to run and not to tire you; walk and don’t get tired [Isaiah 40,31]. Wait for the Lord, my dear sister, with confidence.
And you, who are a mother and constantly fail with your children (because they are all other women), preach the gospel today. If you understand your reality, you are probably painfully aware of every failure you have committed with your children. And maybe he’s tired of fearing failures in the future. It is right for your children to expose their own sin. In fact, it’s the mother who doesn’t seem to realize her daily failures that worries me the most. Christ has prepared the way for you to be at peace. If you have sinned against your children, ask them for forgiveness. If you are concerned about your failures, preach to yourself the grace of God. Do not learn to live with your sin, do not accept it with the attitude of “That’s who I am. “But don’t deny it either. Be honest about your sin. You have sinned. You admit it. God forgives. You get up and walk forward with confidence. It’s called the grace of the gospel, and ESA is the inheritance you leave to your children.