How does god view motherhood

Though it might seem that we moms and kids have different needs e. We are all sinners in need of grace. The days and nights of nurturing children give us dozens of opportunities to hold out Christ to one another. Even though we feel this way, we understand from Scripture that no two days, no two carpool trips, no two doctor visits, and no two bedtime routines are the same. History is going somewhere, and there is an appointed day for the end of this age.

Motherhood is not eternal, Christ is. All of the scurrying about that we do in our daily work is but a fraction of the urgency that hangs over that day. Soon, the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father. And what a day of distress it will be for all those outside of Christ.

Because we are headed toward that day, as we go about our mothering work we can be about what we are going to be about thirty trillion years from now— seeing and savoring Jesus. Ryan Lister. What does it mean that God condescended in Christ and dwells with us through His Spirit? From the very beginning, Eden was not meant to be static; it was headed somewhere. Thomas R. We love you!

I am their world—one that should bring them Jesus and the gospel even as they are loved and cared for daily. From the very beginning, God intimately tied motherhood to womanhood. Eve was the first woman, the first wife, and the first mother. Her identity, though, was being a person of God first and foremost. It was this relationship with God that the devil targeted in Eden. He knew that by getting at who Eve was at her core, he would get at everything else she was as a woman, wife, and mother.

Instead, we should receive motherhood for what it was created for—the calling and the context of living out our feminine roles for the sake of the gospel and the eternal good of our children.

To the extent our womanhood is surrendered to Christ, our motherhood will be also. The best way to sanctify our mothering is to have our womanhood crucified with Christ as well. For a woman centered on the cross of Christ will build her wife-ing and mothering from the cross Godward. Edgar Allan Poe caught something of this uniquely majestic title bestowed on women alone when he wrote:. In motherhood, we have the up days and the down.

We can take comfort in the fact that all things are in His hands, and if that is so, God really meant for you to be their mother! The best way to speak to your hard in your journey of mothering is to apply yourself to the gospel truths outlined in the Bible. Chris Pappalardo.

Heather Cofer. Ashley Hales. Our Limits Are Good. The Risen Motherhood Team. R M Gift Guides Annie VanderHeiden. Reformation Reminders for Modern Moms. Valerie Woerner. Jen Oshman. Aimee Joseph. Marissa Bondurant. These three, together, birthed or mothered the human race into being. But now, like a woman in labor, I will cry and groan and pant Isaiah You ignored the Rock who gave you birth; you forgot the God who gave birth to you Deuteronomy As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem Isaiah But I have learned to feel safe and satisfied, like a young child in its mother's arms Psalm Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing Luke Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that hovers over its young, He spread His wings and caught them, He carried them on His pinions.

The Lord alone guided him, and there was no foreign god with him Deuteronomy Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?

Though she may forget, I will not forget you! Isaiah There are many stories in the Bible involving mothers. Jochebed, the mother of Moses.