Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
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YOU ARE IN GOD’S PERFECT WILL
Dear lovely mother . . .I want to remind you today that as you mother, nurture, and train your children in your home that you are in the perfect will of God.
When God gives His children to you (for they are ultimately His children) to raise and train for Him, He doesn’t give them to you to give to someone else. He knows that no one else in the world will love them, ache for them, protect them, and give their lives for them like their own mother. Mothers and babies ae bound together. Mothers and children are bound together until they reach the age of maturity and are ready to charge out on their own.
I want to also remind you of God’s promise to you that because you are doing the will of God you will live forever Yes, I know this promise is written to those who have embraced the kingdom of God and whose sins are forgiven (1 John 1:7-9).
Here is the promise, also in the book of 1 John 2:15-17: “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world, And the world passeth away and the lust thereof: but HE THAT DOETH THE WILL OF GOD ABIDETH FOREVER.”
Sometimes you may feel like you would like to be out in the career world and doing important things. Let me tell you dear mother, that that kind of lifestyle is going to pass away, as the Scripture says. You won’t take your career into Heaven with you. It will be left behind. Not a memory of it.
But you will take into Heaven your redeemed soul and the redeemed souls of your children who are eternal beings. Motherhood is an eternal career.
Rejoice that you are fulfilling God’s will. God sees your service which is ultimately unto Him. You may feel that you are hidden away, but as you are faithful to fulfil your calling, there is a day coming (and it comes too quickly) that from your home will come children who are prepared to bring God’s salvation and truth to the world, who will shine God’s light into the darkness, and who will overcome the evil.
You couldn’t be doing anything more powerful.
Love from Nancy Campbell
