God Knows Motherhood

Good morning church! And a very Happy Mother’s Day to all our Mothers, adoptive moms, and mother’s to be. So glad you are able to be us today!

Let me open in prayer:

Please turn with me to Isaiah 66:13.

“As a mother comforts her child,

    so will I comfort you;

    and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”

May God be blessed with the reading of His word.

Well, today is mother’s day. A special time when we reflect on Motherhood, even in a humorous way.

Actress, Reese Witherspoon pointed out;

“"I ALWAYS SAY IF YOU AREN'T YELLING AT YOUR KIDS, YOU'RE NOT SPENDING ENOUGH TIME WITH THEM.”

Someone else wrote;

“"SILENCE IS GOLDEN. UNLESS YOU HAVE KIDS. THEN SILENCE IS JUST SUSPICIOUS."

And from an anonymous writer;

“"HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY, MOM! (AND WHILE I HAVE YOU, QUICK APOLOGIES FOR AGES 13-21.)”

Comedian, Phyllis Diller once said;

“"I WANT MY CHILDREN TO HAVE ALL THE THINGS I COULDN'T AFFORD. THEN I WANT TO MOVE IN WITH THEM.”

It’s humor that all mother’s can relate to because they know Motherhood.

Well, God knows Motherhood! Ladies that is important to keep in mind. God knows Motherhood, not just in the intellectual sense, but also in a deeper sense as part of His image. Remember in Gen. 1:27;

“So God created mankind in his own image,

    in the image of God he created them;

    male and female he created them.”

Both male and female are made in God’s image. Woman was not an after thought or a second-rate idea. Women bear the same image of God as any man. Now we are created with differences between male and female, thanks be to God, but we share God’s image.

This fact arises periodically through out Scripture. While God overwhelmingly speaks of Himself in the masculine, there are times He identifies with the feminine.

We see this most clearly when God wants to communicate something about Himself. Yet, God is so wholly other that we lack both the words and concept to describe Him as He really is if he did not chose to reveal something about Himself to us. In the 40th chapter of Isaiah the Lord poises a question, “To whom will you compare me?” He asks this not once but twice. Let me read some of that chapter that you may be impressed;

“Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,

    or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?

Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,

    or weighed the mountains on the scales

    and the hills in a balance?

13 

Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord,

    or instruct the Lord as his counselor?

14 

Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him,

    and who taught him the right way?

Who was it that taught him knowledge,

    or showed him the path of understanding?

With whom, then, will you compare God?

    To what image will you liken him?

Do you not know?

    Have you not heard?

Has it not been told you from the beginning?

    Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

22 

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,

    and its people are like grasshoppers.

He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,

    and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

23 

He brings princes to naught

    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

24 

No sooner are they planted,

    no sooner are they sown,

    no sooner do they take root in the ground,

than he blows on them and they wither,

    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

25 

“To whom will you compare me?

    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

26 

Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:

    Who created all these?

He who brings out the starry host one by one

    and calls forth each of them by name.

Because of his great power and mighty strength,

    not one of them is missing.”

This is our Majestic, Almighty God! Author and theologian, A.W. Pink wrote;

“Such a One is to be revered, worshipped and adored. He is solitary in His majesty, unique in His excellency, peerless in His perfections. He sustains all, but is independent of all…”

To which we can add the insight of A.W. Tozer;

“What is God like?” If by that question we mean, “What is God like in Himself?” there is no answer. If we mean, “What has God disclosed about Himself that the reverent reason can comprehend? there is, I believe, an answer both full and satisfying. For while the name of God is secret and His essential nature incomprehensible, He, in condescending love, has by Revelation declared certain things true about Himself.”

Many of those certain things in Scripture which refer to God are similes. A simile compares two things using words such as “like” or “as.” Because God is so entirely other the human mind cannot comprehend Him as He is. So God, in order to communicate with us, resorted to language we could understand and often uses similes. Here are a couple of examples;