Every year on our church’s calendar a date is set aside for “Mother’s Day”.
Strictly speaking, it is not a biblical or even a church date. It probably is purely economic and secular – a time we are encouraged to spend money on perfume, jewellery or flowers to celebrate our mothers. So why is it on the church’s calendar? A little verse in the Bible gives me reason enough, “Honour your father and mother”.
Years ago I had to find a scripture for a Mother’s Day service. Frustrated at finding nothing that year, I used a verse that surprised most of the congregation: the story about Jesus feeding 5 000 people with five fishes and a few loaves.
Yes, I know the story is about Jesus, the disciples, 5 000 people and a little boy. There is no mother in the story, but as I prayed about the sermon, I felt God saying, “Yes, there is a very important person in the story that you have missed”.
Then I saw the light. It must have been a mother who packed that boy’s lunch. The punch line of that Mother’s Day sermon was, “What have you given your child that Jesus can use to help others?”
Mother’s Day should be every day. It is our moms who sow into our lives so that we can help others.
What have you given your child that Jesus can use? Bless our mothers!!
