Amos 3:3 asks the question: “Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” I have always thought of this in the context of two people, specifically a married couple. However, it is really in the context of God and me. Can God walk with me if I don’t agree with what He says in His Word? That’s not going to work very well, is it?I immediately think of Isaiah 55:8, 9: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Our job is to come up to God’s thoughts and ways. We cannot bring Him down to puny thinking.
We must also think about motherhood the way God thinks about it. When God says His ways and thoughts are higher than our ways, the word in the Hebrew is “gabah” which means “to be high, exalted, to soar, to raise up to a great height.”
God also uses this word in describing motherhood. In Ezekiel 19:10-14 we read an allegory about motherhood. God is actually talking about Judah but likens her to a mother. He likens Judah to a fruitful mother planted by the waters, similar to the description in Psalm 128:3. Verse 11 says: “her stature was exalted” and "higher than all the other trees around.” The words “exalted” and “higher” are also “gabah” meaning to soar to a great height.
God sees motherhood higher than every other career for women. Every other career is only for this life. It will be left behind. But motherhood is an eternal career. It impacts eternity as we bring forth eternal souls into this world to reveal His image and to prepare them for the eternal world.
Motherhood is more influential than any other career in that we determine the destiny of the nation. The nation is strong or weak according to the mothers in the home who raise godly or worldly children. We have the power to turn the nation to righteousness or to evil.
Dear mother, don’t listen to the lies of this world who seek to push motherhood into the mud. Those are the lies of the enemy. God states that our career is “exalted.” This is how He sees it. This is how He planned it. Think like God thinks.
You can’t walk with Him if you don’t agree with Him.
Blessings to you today,
Nancy Campbell
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The apostle John loved to call his readers his “little children.” The Greek word is “teknion” which means “a little child.” It is also used of a tender term for a "teacher towards his disciples.” He calls them “little children” seven times in this book.
Such a beautiful thing. But to be loved we must first love. The more we speak love, show love, and give love to our spouse, the more it boomerangs back upon us. Just like we love God because He first loved us.
“When God lays a new-born babe in the arms of a mother, he says to her heart, "Take this child and nurse it for me and I will give you your wages." The answer of maternal love should be, ‘Oh God, you have put your noblest workmanship into my hands. I accept the precious trust. I will shelter this young life under your mercy-seat. I will be truthful that it may never learn falsehood. I will nurse this soul in its infancy with the sincere milk of love, that in after years it may bear strong meat for strong service of God and righteousness.
Dear mother, Sometimes you think you are not accomplishing very much in your home! But be encouraged, you are doing a great work. Great things are a combination little things. Every day you are doing little things that are adding up to big things. Every smile and cuddle you give to your children is filling up their tank of security. Every encouragement and affirmation you give them each day is preparing them for their future. Every seed of truth from God’s word that you speak into them throughout the day is a seed that will grow into a full tree as you keep watering it. Every prayer you pray for your children is going up before the throne of God as incense!
Tomorrow Colin and I drive to Pensacola along with loads of other members of our family.
Do you receive the daily newsletter from Rebecca Lavrenz, THE J6 PRAYING GRANDMA. I would encourage you to get this. Here is a little snippet from the other day:
(A Testimony from an older grandmother).
This post reminds of the quote: “worrying is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do but gets you nowhere.”
Don't despise preparing meals for your family. Wonderful things can happen at your meal table as you come with joy and expectancy!
The other Sunday morning we were singing the worship song, “Glorify thy name in all the earth.”
Dear mothers, we must be truth seeking mothers. We must know the truth and impart the truth of God’s Word to our children. They must be children who know the truth in the midst of this deceived society. It is the truth that sets us free. It is only the truth that exposes deception. The truth will always win out. Don’t give up. Keep holding on to truth. Be a truth seeking, truth loving, truth keeping, truth upholding family.
Serene Allison gave a powerful message to the ladies at the retreat on Passionate Marriage.
The great evangelist, D. L. Moody and his wife, Emma, also enjoyed a beautiful marriage together. A niece wrote: “Aunt Emma and Uncle Dwight were so perfectly one that nobody could possibly me tell which was the one.”
Charles Haden Spurgeon, known as “the prince of preachers” and his wife Susannah enjoyed a beautiful marriage together.
Do you want your marriage to last to the end? Start building into it now.
It’s the best. Not the easiest but the BEST! And you are in the perfect will of God.