Today’s Reading
Genesis 29-30
Luke 12
My Scripture is Luke
12:48 (HCSB)
“…Much will be
required of everyone who has been given much. And even more will be expected of
the one who has been entrusted with more.”
The first sentence of this part of the verse is telling me
that we all will be held accountable according to what we have done with our
blessings. At first I used to think
blessings were only the good things that happen to me in life like my children,
that job I wanted, my car being reliable, never being homeless and finding
someone to love me. I have now realized
that my blessings were also losing my grandmother at the age of five, becoming
a teen mom, the men that broke my heart, when my children hurt me, when I lost
my job, when I lost my car, etc.. When I
look back at my life I have been blessed through everything that I have
experienced. The second sentence is
telling me the responsibility that I have in how I use my blessings. I have always believed that had I not become
a teen mom I would have chosen not to have children, so being a mother was
definitely God’s plan. Though I had a
foundation in God all of my life thanks to my Nanny, I didn’t have the
education of the word that I am learning now.
Because of the negative blessings I received right after my second child
I chose to raise my children to be the best adults they could be. That passion God placed in my heart has
burned ever since. I have assisted in
raising many children and their children.
As a mother I take my role serious and I know it is my responsibility to
share the importance of being a mother with the younger women today. As mothers God has entrusted us with so much –
He has given us the opportunity to raise His children. We all talk about how Mary must have felt
knowing she raised the Son of God when we don’t realize he has entrusted us
with a duty just as important. I really
wish more mothers took their roles more seriously. Instead, we have young mothers using their
babies to control the father, using them as a way to receive sympathy/pity,
using them to collect a check (from the government or fathers), using them to
replace the love they felt was missing in their lives, using them as a
replacement for a mate, and just using them for anything they want to. As a mother I have to say the reason this generation
has no respect of life is because they weren’t taught to and it is our fault as
mothers. So the time of accountability
has started and just as in the days of the Bible we can change the world one
home at a time. We all we have to account
for what we have been given and what He has entrusted us with.
Prayer:
Lord, I pray that I have done what you require of me as a
mother. I pray that I have given a voice
to the voiceless through what you have taught me about being a mother. I ask that you help me work through my doubts
of when to step back and when to fight for your children. Thank you for allowing me to be entrusted
with your children. In Jesus’ name,
Amen.
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