Mother's Day

Mother’s Day. As those words are read there are probably as many different emotions that go along with it as there are people reading it.

This is the day, we send cards, buy gifts, have special dinners, and more to celebrate and honor this person whom we call, mother, mom, mommy or “Maaaaaaaaaa”.

I realize today that for some of you, that word, that title, mother, mom, mommy, brings with it, not a celebratory feeling, but rather a sad and possibly angry sense that you’d rather not deal with.

You might be asking what talking about Mother’s Day has to do with worship. Although many of us have wonderful memories of our mother’s and remember from an early age the special times and hold on to the precious heritage that our mother’s have provided for us, there are some of you that the only thing your mother ever gave you was life. For some, you see the pain and heartache that she gave you and it’s hard for you to even allow the though of her to cross your mind.

Whatever your particular situation, here is how I believe that we all can worship God and give Him the praise for our mother’s, no matter what our experience with or without her may be.

The one common gift each of our mother’s gave to all of us is the gift of life. With that gift of life comes one other common opportunity. That is the opportunity to have a relationship with the Living God. Without that gift of life, you would not be here today. If you were not here today, you would not have the opportunity to know Jesus Christ as Savior and be a child of God Almighty.

Scripture tells us that God formed us in our mother’s womb. He knew us by name even before we were born. It also tells us that God knew everything about us, even where we would live! The joy in the pain, the sunshine in the rain, the good in the bad of whatever your situation may be, is that God has ordered your steps right to this moment. He is here today and wants to meet with you and wants to walk the rest of your life from this moment on hand in hand with you; loving you and letting you get to know Him better and deeper each and every day. The person who God used to get you here was in large part, your mother. That is something to thank and praise God for and no matter what your history, to honor your mother for.