A Mother’s Day Message: "God Has A Plan"

A Mother’s Day Message

“God Has A Plan”

Exodus 2

As I approached this morning’s teaching, I am reminded once again of a mother in the Scriptures that exemplifies the meaning of parenting and how God has a special role for mothers in the upbringing of their children. And what I also see is that this applies to dads as well.

Now, Mother’s Day is a day that we set aside to honor our mothers. But this day means different things to many.

For some, it’s a day of sorrow as their mothers are no longer with them, or they are suffering the pain of a lost child, or a child who is no longer with them, or they haven’t seen for some time.

For others, they never really had a good relationship with their mothers, so it hard because they don’t like to be reminded.

And for others, they’ve had difficulty being a mom, and they’ve harbored guilt and shame for maybe some wrong decisions their children may have made.

There are just a few, and each of these have various layers attached to them.

But these sorts of scenario’s some may wonder why even do a Mother’s Day message. And the reason why I want to is to reinforce that God can give to everyone a new day, a new life, and a new or renewed relationship with Him.

Now, if I could, I’d like to share with the men some things that I have learned as to what not to buy your wife on Mother’s Day, and hopefully for some of us, it’s not too late.

Don’t buy anything that plugs into an electrical outlet. Not that she can’t use it, but if it’s a vacuum cleaner or something useful for household chores, or a kitchen appliance, or even a beauty product, she’ll wonder what you’re trying to tell her, and I guarantee that it won’t be what you meant by buying it.

Also, don’t buy a piece of clothing that involves a size, because if it’s too big, she’ll say, “I big to you think I am.” Or if it’s too small she’ll say, “I haven’t worn that size in years,” and then she’ll think she is too big.

And whatever you do, don’t buy a weight loss or self-improvement book or DVD, and I really don’t need to explain why on either of those.

And if you spend too much, she’ll say, “We can’t afford it.” And if it isn’t that much, she’ll think, we’ll, I can’t even go there!

And so, before I get myself into more trouble, let’s look at our topic of God’s role for mothers, because not matter how young or old your child may be, God has given you that child or children, and has a special blessing and role for you to play. And again, this goes for dads as well.   

And here’s the main point, that God has a plan for your children, and He has given them to us to help them along the path He has chosen for them to take.

“Train up a child in the way he should go, and then he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6 NKJV)

The word, “train,” has with it the idea of dedication, and so the training should be with a purpose. And it is something that God has given to parents to see and understand early in the child’s life and then help change wrong or harmful behavior and thinking to allow the child to be everything God has created for them to be.

But I don’t believe it’s talking about their future career, but rather their future behavior and relationship with God. For you see, a child as two roads they can take, just like every adult. For adults it’s the die road that leads to destruction, or the narrow road that leads to everlasting life in the presence of God (Matthew 7:23-24). Therefore, according to the book of Proverbs, the narrow road is the way of the wise and righteous, but the wide road is the way of the wicked and foolish.

Now, today’s story looks at Moses’s mom, Jochebed (Joch’-E-bed). But not much is known about his dad, Amram (Am’-ram), except he had the good sense to marry Jochebed. 

Read Exodus 2:1-3

Now, there’s not a lot here to work with, but there are two key points we can learn from, and again this applies to dads as well.

Jochebed understood her role as a mother in God’s plan for Moses, and what we see is not only did she protect him but raised him in the ways of God where in the course of history, he followed God’s lead and led the children of Israel out from their Egyptian bondage and into God’s Promised Land.