“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you” (Isaiah 66:13)
Steve Lawson tells how when he got out of theological college he was preaching through Revelation when Mother’s Day came along. And because he is committed to sequential preaching he preached on the next passage before him, which happened to be about ‘the whore of Babylon’.
“I felt good about it! We are committed to the Word of God… We’re not a Hallmark card Bible church. Every day is a holy day to God.”
But one could certainly see how in the midst of that you could speak of the mother from Hell and how we should be thankful for a mother of heavenly grace and godly commitment. You could speak of how girls and women, indeed mothers, should aspire to be a mother of heavenly grace and godly commitment. We could see how boys and men should seek to marry one who gives evidence of being so. You could also speak of how husbands and fathers should cultivate, encourage and appreciate this in the one they marry, making sure their children do also.
Maybe today, whether a mother or not, we need to turn the ‘could’ into should, or better into becoming and being by the grace of God and because of the grace of God.
The issue is not whether your mother was worthy or whether you are a worthy mother or even a mother at all. It is to contemplate the graces and gifts of godly motherhood and how it relates to your life and should be seen in our Christian fellowship and ministry.
Paul was not ashamed to do so. Indeed neither is God, who in Isa 66:13 likens His tender love to that of a mother.