Lord, We Thank You for the love our Mothers gave us and
the faith she taught us. Amen
“This is dedicated to My Mother, Mrs. Gwendolyn C. Brown.”
The Apostle Paul was also the proud possessor of a deep and abiding faith, and he admired this quality in others. That is why we find him saying to Timothy: “When I call to remembrance, the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother, Lois, and thy mother, Eunice, and I am persuaded that in thee also.” (II Timothy 1:5)
Many of us, including myself, have “like Timothy” caught the faith by which we live from our mothers and grandmothers. It has been said that no other force in the life of a child is as strong an influence as his mother.
Jesus, in the great crisis of His life, His temptation and crucifixion, fed His spirit with passages from the Old Testament, which He had learned at His mother’s feet.
Yes, down through the centuries, the mother has been a stabilizing factor in the shaping of history. “The future destiny of the child,” said Napoleon, is always the work of the mother.”
After becoming President, Abraham Lincoln generously said, “All that I am or can become, I owe to my angel mother.” Theodore Roosevelt put it this way: “The Mother is the one supreme asset of the national life. She is more important by far than the successful statesman, businessman, artist, or scientist.”
If ever there was a need for Godly mothers with a deep, abiding faith, it is today. Mothers have always been the translators of faith. Faith in our sense of somebodiness, dignity, worth, and awareness that God is no respecter of persons. To Him, red, yellow, black, or white is beautiful. For God is not hung up on complexion or clothes–but rather on the contents of one’s character.
Now, by faith, I do not mean mere blind, uncritical credulity. Faith is not believing things you know aren’t so, as a small boy once defined it. Neither are faith magical formulas by the mere repetition of which supernatural powers are harnessed to do your bidding.
Nor is faith a body of religious dogma, something once and for all delivered to the saints. No! Faith is rather, reason in a courageous mood, as L.P. Jacks has defined it.
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