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GOD IS IN YOUR MOTHERING
We talked yesterday about knowing God in all our ways (Proverbs 3:6). What does it say? ALL our ways. That means ALL the practical ways of our lives. We can often feel very close to God when we are away on our own with our Bible and no distractions. In fact, we can feel very spiritual. But what about when we get back in the fray? In the midst of babies, toddlers, tantrums, teens, frustrations, and overwhelmingness! How can we know God then?
Dear mother, God wants you to KNOW HIM in all your mothering ways. Let’s get to the reality of life. God is the One who created our bodies. He wondrously, intricately, and amazingly created them to carry and nurture life in our wombs, to give birth, to pour out life and sustenance from our breasts, and to mother and teach our children. We are created, called, chosen, ordained, designated, and destined physically, emotionally, and spiritually for this purpose.
Therefore, as we realize this divine truth (and can I please interrupt my sentence here--it is a divine truth and because it is God’s plan the enemy wants to rob us from it. When he robs us of this truth, he robs us of our full understanding of God). As we embrace this divine truth we come to find out more and more who God is like. And the more we embrace His ways for us as wives and mothers, the more He reveals to us and leads us in His paths.
Seek with all your heart to KNOW GOD in the way He created you. Discover all the amazing hormones He gives to you when you are pregnant. Experience the blessed hormones He gives you while you nurse your baby. God is wrapped up in all your mothering. You miss knowing much of who God really is when you discard your mothering ways for other ways.
We understand how He wants us to mother even as we read these negative Scriptures about animals and birds:
Job 39:13-16: “The ostrich . . . which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in dust, and forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labor is vain without fear.”
Lamentations 4:3: “Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give s.uck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.”
Jeremiah 8:7: “Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming: but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.”
Be blessed, Nancy Campbell
P.S. Here are some links you may like to check out:
http://tinyurl.com/PreservedThroughMotherhood
http://bit.ly/PreservationTestimonies
http://www.thealphaparent.com/…/how-breastfeeding-changes-y…
ww.nationalrighttolifenews.org/…/the-amazing-interplay-be…/…
