Eve, was the mother of all living people who have been and who will be. Her name, Eve, means “living” She was he first mother and the first woman to ever give birth to a child. I wonder if she knew what to expect when it came time for Cain to be born? I wonder if she was afraid of motherhood… no one had ever done it before. I wonder if she knew what an important and influential job being a mother would be? Since he time of Eve, it has fallen to mothers to raise their children for the Lord. They are to nurture us, provide for us, raise us, teach us, and discipline us. Mother’s have the remarkable ability to change the world through their children. We have gone through another Mother’s Day, but the influence of our mothers are still with us. If you are a mom, thank you for the sacrifices you have made to make your children’s lives special. If you are a child (and who of are not), choose one thing about your mom and honor her for it. Remember, like you she is not perfect, but she chose to give you life, and … READ MORE

I want to conclude my thoughts leading up to Mother’s Day with some thoughts on mom’s who were not “Birth Moms”. In Ephesians 1:5, We are reminded that “Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,” We are adopted into the family of God, we are also reminded in John 15:16, we are reminded that we have not chosen Christ, but He has chosen us. That is a beautifully pictured in the Adoptive Mom. Unlike a birth mom who is “stuck” with the child that she gets, an adoptive mom chose you out of all the ranks of children that were possible. This selection is a wonderful picture of what God does for us. out of all people God could choose, He choose us, and in that choice He devotes His full love and attention to us. He could not love us more, if we were His “Only Begotten”, If you are the child of adoption, don’t feel like your “birth mother” abandoned you, look at it as if your “birth mother” love you enough to give you to another family to give you advantages that she … READ MORE

Jesus says in Matthew 19:19 “Honour thy father and thy mother: ” How do you do that is a sin cursed society? And how do you do it when we are told in the Bible that we are “to leave our father and mother and cleave to our spouse?” (Genesis 2:24). “Honour” means to show respect. That does not mean that we have to obey them any longer, it doesn’t mean that we have to agree with their lifestyle, or even the way that they raised us. But, it does mean that we demonstrate to them the love and respect that the deserve, because God has chosen to make them our mother. Of all the potential candidates in the world when you were born, God placed you in the womb of your mother. Because of her respect for you, and her commitment to this pregnancy she chose to carry you for 9 months, and then saw to it that you were cared for while you were growing up. If that does not deserve our respect, nothing else does. We were selfish, self-centered little brats upon our birth, they may not have cared for us the way we would have liked … READ MORE