I am walking away from my power point planning for the speaking/teaching engagement I have for this coming Saturday… The more I study and the more I sit before the Word, I keep adding slides.Ā I will have those mom’s and kids there all day and night if I don’t walk away now š
However I think I might share a small piece of what I feel the Lord has put on my heart to share… this is what I am choosing to title asĀ The Call of a Mother…
It’s simply an adaptation of Jeremiah 1:4-12.
Now the word of theĀ LordĀ came to me saying,
Woman, before IĀ formed you in the womb I knew you,
AndĀ before you were born I consecrated you;
I haveĀ appointed you a mother to this child.ā
ThenĀ I said, āAlas, LordĀ God!
Behold, I do not know how to be a mother,
BecauseĀ I am just a girl.ā
But theĀ LordĀ said to me,
āDo not say, āI am just a girl,ā
Because this child I have given you, you shall raise,
AndĀ all that I command you, you shall speak.
Ā āDo not be afraid of this,
ForĀ I am with you to guide you,ā declares theĀ Lord.
Then theĀ LordĀ stretched out His hand andĀ touched my mouth, and theĀ LordĀ said to me,
āBehold, I haveĀ put My words in your mouth.
āSee,Ā I have appointed you this day over this child and over this house,
To pluck up and to break down,
To destroy and to overthrow,
To build and to plant.ā
The word of theĀ LordĀ came to me saying, āWhat do you see,Ā Mother?ā And I said, āI see a rod of anĀ almond tree.āĀ Then theĀ LordĀ said to me, āYou have seen well, forĀ I amĀ watching over My word to perform it.ā
The call of a mother… to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overflow, and to build and to plant.
TheĀ wise woman builds her house,
But the foolish tears it down with her own hands.
Proverbs 14:1
The wisdom comes in learning what needs to be plucked, broke down, destroyed, and overthrown… and what needs to be built and what needs to be planted. When our wombs are filled with this precious life that is a unique DNA cell combination never, ever ,ever, ever to be created again we embark on a mission, a journey, that no other soul on earth will ever experience… they can’t… because this experience is ours and this child’s. There will never be another like this one…
There is only one who knows this child inside and out… and His name is ELOHIM.
Apart from Him we are clueless as to what to do, when to do, and how to do… but He, Elohim, has said, Do not fear… I am with you.
He knows that this beautiful one you hold sleeping in your arms appears sweet, innocent, and peaceful… but He knows the work that lies ahead for you… He already sees the nights that come with scream and vomit and dirty diapers. He already sees the tempers, the selfishness, the weaknesses, the fears, the battles that lie within.
He knows that their will be lies from hell that seep in to their minds that will need plucked out of this child. He knows that their will be rebellious wills that will need to be broke down. He knows that their will be selfish desires that will need to be destroyed. He knows that their will be lofty thoughts that try to set themselves up against Christ that will need to be overthrown.
He knows that when plucking, breaking down, destroying, and overthrowing takes place… their must also be building that takes place.Ā When the shaky foundations are destroyed, there must be laid a solid foundation on which to continue to build and grow.
He knows that when the lies are plucked out, there must be truth planted in the soil… or the lies will find their way back and quickly take root again.
He knows that for a wayward soul to be loved it takes the memory of a love of days of innocent dependance to be able to still reach out in the face of greatest gut wrenching betrayals and rebellions…
I remember concerning you theĀ devotion of your youth,
Jeremiah 2:1
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Yet it is I who taught Ephraim to walk,
IĀ took them in My arms;
Hosea 11:3
He knows that this is a weary work for a mother who truly answers this call… so He reminds us that He Himself watches over His word to perform it. He reminds us that in this call it is He who watches to perform… we are not responsible for the results… we are only responsible to obey.
He knows the fear of failure that we will carry.
He knows the feelings of inadequacy we will fight.
He knows the thoughts of quitting we will have.
He knows the questions of doubt we will face.
He knows the condemnation we will attempt to place on ourselves.
So He reminds us over and over again in His Word… you do as I command you… and trust Me to accomplish My will and perform My Word.
The call of a mother is so much more than feed, burp, bath, put down to sleep. It’s so much more than, did you clean your room, did you do your homework, did you remember to brush your teeth… yet at the same time all those appearing simple things play a very huge part of the call of a mother…
