Motherhood is Forever

Moms play a big role in who we become as people. When we are hurt as a child, we run to our moms for comfort. As adults, moms sustain us with prayer behind the scenes. Many times our mother figures may not have been our biological moms. A grandmother or a woman from a church family can become the one we look up to as a mom.

“He grants the barren woman a home, Like a joyful mother of children.” Psalm 113:9 (NKJV) 

Since God created us to need moms, He also created the body of Christ to be a place for the motherless to find a mom and the childless to find people to teach and pour their lives into. If you have no children you are immediately caring for, find someone in your local body you can serve. If you have children, find someone in your church family that would love an opportunity to serve you and your children. God made us in order to serve one another.

“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2 (NKJV)

The image of a mom literally bearing children (and their burdens) so displays how Christ bears us until we can be revealed. “For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” Colossians 3:3 (NKJV). Part of the image of being born again is letting Christ hide us in Him as He bears our burdens. We become children of God as Jesus bears our iniquities (Isaiah 53). Mothers are forever because they so clearly display the forever love of God toward us.