THE SOURCE

The words He speaks are: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.”

God is the ultimate Father. He is the Father of fathers. He is also the source of all maternal nurturing. He is the ultimate Nourisher and Nurturer.

Dear mother, when you embrace your motherhood--your nurturing and nourishing anointing which comes from the heart of God, you reveal what God is like to your family and to the world.

God is a family God. He is the One who planned marriage and family and the raising of children. God is into the business of raising families. He gathered a family to Himself when He established the race of Israel. They were His children and he poured out his heart of love and compassion upon them.

We see God’s nurturing heart as we read: “Listen to me, O house of Jacob . . . who have been upheld by me from birth, who have been carried from the womb: Even to your old age, I am he, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you” (Isaiah 46:3, 4).

We read again in Isaiah 64:9, 10: “In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his Presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit.”

Did you notice the last words? God says again in Isaiah 65:2: “I have spread out my hands all the day unto rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts.”

Have our poured out your heart and nourished and nurtured and yet your children have grown up and rebelled? Dearest mother, if you are facing this pain, I want you to know that God understands the grief and ache in your heart. He understands your burden. He has been through it and He knows the anguish of your heart.

But God never gives up. And He will help you to keep fighting the forces of evil in prayer to win your child back into the kingdom.

Be encourage today, Nancy Campbell