GOD IS IN ALL YOUR MOTHERING, No. 720
GOD IS IN ALL YOUR MOTHERING
O that there were such a heart in them,
that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always,
that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!”
(Deuteronomy 5:29).
I am sure you know the Scripture, Proverbs 3:5, 6: “Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
Do you notice that it says that we are to acknowledge the Lord in all our ways? Not only in the ways we feel comfortable with but in all our ways. This means in all the practical ways of our lives, which of course means all our mothering ways.
The word “acknowledge” is the Hebrew word yada which means “to know intimately.” We can often feel very close to God when we are 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 experience Him in all your daily mothering. He wants you to experience Him intimately even in our daily motherhood.
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 even if our humanistic society does not embrace it) we will come to understand His ways.
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 in our roles 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. Don’t be dumbed down by the foolishness of our feminist society. Discover all the amazing hormones He gives to you when you are pregnant. Experience the beautiful, blissful and calming hormones He gives to 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 the ways of the world.
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; because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.”
Lamentations 4:3: “Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck 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.” Read also Jeremiah 5:3, 4; Deuteronomy 5:29; and Psalm 81: 12, 13.
Let’s be those who know God and know who He created us to be and how He created us to function. We not only learn of God’s ways listening to a message in church but in the nitty gritty of life in our homes.
PRAYER:
“I thank You, dear Father, that Your ways are the best ways. They are higher than my ways, but I want to come up to Your ways. Please teach me Your ways so that I can walk in them for my blessing and Your glory. Amen.”
AFFIRMATION:
As I embrace mothering I understand more and more of the character of God.
Blessings from NANCY CAMPBELL
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P.S. Here are some links you may like to check out:
http://tinyurl.com/PreservedThroughMotherhood
http://bit.ly/PreservationTestimonies
http://www.thealphaparent.com/2014/06/how-breastfeeding-changes-your-brain.html