God/Momma

God wants us to know Him, and many times in Scripture He uses different pictures and examples to reveal Himself and His character to us. Today as we have gathered together to worship our God and to honor the mothers among us, and may I tell you that God considers the role of motherhood to be very important and a very high calling.

I believe that we know some of the characteristics of a mother, but in the event that you don’t, allow me to share with you that a mother are ones who provide the nurturing in a family, we know that her love is unconditional, we know that she is always there for her children no matter what, and finally when the world seems to be against us a mother is there to comfort and support us. Now I understand why God has elected, chosen, and adopted to describe Himself in the terms of a “mother” because all of the above characteristics are the same characteristics that God uses to describe himself.

Matthew 23:37 says, O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

What I have learned is that when danger is present a mother hen gathers her chicks under her wings to shelter and protect them. God wants to do that same thing for us. The problem that I see here is that there are those who God has offered his loving kindness, his protection and shelter to nut they reject His offer and scatter about and not seek the safety and comfort that He wants to provide for us.

The story is told of a man who was looking over the burnt remains of his farm after a terrible fire. He noticed a lump of something in the barnyard that was still moving around. He kicked it around and from underneath the debris came a little chick. The mother hen had faced the fire and given her life to protect the chick. And that’s how our Lord described Himself. "How often would I have gathered thy children." That is exactly what Jesus did for us when He bore our sin on the cross and gave up His life to pay for our sin debt.

This morning I want you to see one of the greatest gifts that God gave us when He gave us a mother, more importantly, I want you to see and receive the greatest gift he ever gave to us, and that was His Son, Jesus Christ!

I know that there Is No Protector like a mother's protection. When I look at the animal kingdom: a mother dog will guard her puppies with her very life. Those puppies are the most important thing in her existence at that moment.

In the animal kingdom, the gentlest cows will turn on you if they perceive that you are going to harm their calves.

Some of you know the country lifestyle, and my question is, have you ever gathered eggs? It takes some special skills, because the mother of those eggs provides protection.

In the animal kingdom a mother will protect her young even to the point of giving up her own life. This is also true within the human realm. I don’t care how bad a child can be, I don’t care how mean a child can be, they can be slick, cunning, underhanded, or just down right stubborn. I don’t care how slick, underhanded, or mischief, it doesn’t matter how bad they are there are, they are still somebody child, and there is some mother somewhere that will hurt you over their child. I can hear them say you don’t know how many hours I spent in labor with them, you don’t know how I almost die on the table having them don’t mess with my baby and they mean don’t mess with them.

There are even episodes within the scripture of mothers that was willing to put their life on the line for their child. I know that you all remember Moses momma.

Here is a mother who was willing to defy the order of the Pharaoh to preserve the life of her son. It is said for three months; she hid him and then took him to the river to hide him from being killed. And it was there that Pharaohs daughter found the baby among the reeds and took him and raised him as her own son. Look at how God has directed this event so that the Pharaoh’s daughter would discover Moses, and that Moses real mother would be chosen to be his nurse. And all of this occurred because of a Mother’s desire to protect her child. There was an entire message written about this episode because she wanted to protect her baby. I wonder how many chapters would have to written about some of our modern day mother and about the protection that they have provided.