The following was my first blog post ever and I decided that I wanted to re-post it today. Enjoy!
Q. What does God's Word (the Bible) say about being a Christian Momma?
A few days ago I had a conversation (on Facebook) with one of my cousins about this very subject and found what the Bible has to say pretty encouraging and insightful. So, if you are a momma, a soon-to-be momma, or if you have the desire to be a momma some day, I highly encourage you to take a moment and read further. Although there are many examples of how to be a godly woman spread throughout God's love letter, there seems to be only one address that speaks directly to the special love that a mother has for her offspring and a very crucial role that God has bestowed and blessed many women with. In the New Testament, in Titus 2:4-5, this is what it says,
"4Then they (older women/mothers) can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, 5 to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the Word of God."
Now, although there is a lot in those two verses we could unpack, we are only going to focus on the first half of this section. The word 'love' that is mentioned in this scripture derives from the Greek word, Philoteknos (pronounced fē-lo'-tek-nos). This word expresses a specific and unique kind of "mother love". The idea that this word brings across, is that when we as mothers care for our children--nurturing them, teaching them a biblical word view, playing with them, embracing them affectionately, being available to them, and as gotquestions.org states, "tenderly befriending each one as a unique gift from the hand of God", we, as momma's, are walking in obedience before the Lord. Now if that wasn't the biggest run on sentence, I don't know what is? :) You get the point though right? Our kids are special...really special, and they are a unique display of God's abilities to imagine and create.
One more thing, from what I've read, the Bible never states that every single woman on the face of this planet should be a mother. Some have no interest, some physically cannot, however, for those women that God does bless with children (whether biological or adopted), we need to take that responsibility seriously. We are assisting in the shaping and molding of that human life.
If you want, check out some of these other address that have to do with raising kids.
Availability-Deuteronomy 6:6-7
Teaching-Psalm 78:5-6; Deuteronomy 4:10; Ephesians 6:4
Training-Proverbs 22:6; Romans 12:3-8; 1 Corinthians 12
Disciplining-Ephesians 6:4; Hebrews 12:5-11; Proverbs 13:24; 19:18; 22:15; 23:13-14
Nurturing-Titus 2:4; 2 Timothy 1:7; Ephesians 4:29-32
Lord,
Thank you for our son, thank you for the joy and life he brings to our lives. Please teach me to be more available and nurturing. Let me see him through your eyes and please give me wisdom, discernment and patience in raising and teaching him about the big and small things in this adventure we call life. ~In Jesus' Name, Amen
The idea and some of the information that I found for this entry came from a study done on www.gotquestions.org.
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