There's Nothing Like A Mother's Love (Mother's Day 2020 Version)

Is one of the main responsibilities of mothers to teach their children to do their best? Remember Patton’s mother grooming her boy to become a leader? He went on to become one of the best leaders this nation ever had. Just think once again about the mother of Enrico Caruso and how she was sympathetic and supportive of him. Remember also the love of Ray Charles’s mother as she was trying to teach him some independence? Mothers have an instinct for this kind of loving support and sympathy!

Did your mother ever teach you about the importance of unity? 1) Addressing sibling rivalries: How many times did your mother give you instructions about getting along with your siblings? Did her advice echo Philippians 2:2?: "Fulfill ye my joy, that ye may be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind." Obviously, Paul was talking about not only living a godly life after the example of Christ, but also a godly life in harmony with each other” (KJV). 2) Addressing your name: Godly mothers want us to live in harmony with our upbringing because of who we are . Proverbs 22:1? says “A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold” (ESV).

Can you fill in the blank, If mama ain’t happy, (ain’t noboby happy)? There is the story of a young man who went off to college and defied some of the values of his rearing that he had acquired in a Christian home. He had pornographic pictures on the walls. One day his mother came to visit him. She saw his walls but said nothing. Instead, she sent him a picture of herself and asked him to hang it up on his wall. The next time she went to see him the other pictures had been removed. And her picture was there hanging on the wall. She asked him about it and he replied, "You see mother, I could not have those pictures beside yours. They would be out of place." (A. Naismith. 1200 Notes, Quotes and Anecdotes. Great Britain: Pickering Paperbacks, 1988, p. 193). This story backs up the truth behind Proverbs 22:6: "Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it" (NIV). When mothers raise their children well, "training them in the way that should go", they give their children roots that are not compatible with a worldly lifestyle in the "far country".

We rise and call godly mothers blessed because of all they did (and are doing) to teach us how to love godly lives.