Sunday is mothers day. A chance for Christians to celebrate one of God’s most significant means of his common and redeeming grace.
David Mathis, in an article on churchleaders.com, writes:
For most, there’s some bitter flavor somewhere. We live in a fallen world. All mothers are sinful—even Jesus’s own mother knew well her need for a Savior and for God’s mercy. Whether your own mother monumentally failed you, or you’re a mother who’s all too aware of how you’ve failed your children, there is goodness and grace to acknowledge and appreciate in almost every situation, even when deeply tarnished by sin.
But for many of us, our hearts soar in thanksgiving when God brings to mind our mothers and grandmothers, or our wife and mother of our children. Among those of us raised in believing homes—in which our parents were faithful in teaching and modeling the faith—we may enjoy, all the more, the priceless privilege of fulfilling Proverbs 31:28 on Mother’s Day: “Her children rise up and call her blessed.”
Countless characteristics of a godly mother could be celebrated this weekend, but for the Christian, it may be captured best in 2 Timothy 3:14–15, where Paul writes of the eternal influence of Timothy’s mother.
“Continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.”