Mother's Day Meditation 2020

"The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908, when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St Andrew's Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia. ... In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, held on the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers." - Wikipedia

Philosophers and theologians have often debated on whether God is a male of female.
These questions are brought about by a biased tunnel-vision view of God where one either highlights the "mostly" male references to God vs the female qualities of God.

What we are about to share today is an attempt to show biblical substance to Mother's Day with the following simple salient points:

1. God created "man" in his image. That obviously INCLUDES women! Where did God get his model of man? From God himself, of course. BUT, where did God get his model of woman? The answer is not as obvious to many, but the only answer is the same, God himself! God created woman in his own image!
2. God, therefore, divided his character and qualities between man and woman. He created both to be different and INTENDED for both to COMPLEMENT each other in life's journeys.
3. God is LOVE, we all know that, although a few of us miss the biblical message and actually focus more on his sovereignty than his love and miss out on a lot of practical bible applications and blessings and resurrection power. However, we can never understand the fullness of the love of God if we fail to discern the internal workings of the love of a mother.

The reason many Christians do not have a clear concept of the love of God is mainly because they have a male chauvinistic focus. They analyze Jesus, Paul, John and other biblical male models to try to comprehend the matchless love of God. While this approach is not wrong, it is not entirely correct.

Yes we can learn unconditional "agape" love from the male models. However, we miss out on the full picture of the Kheced (covenant love) of God unless we look at the Mother's love for her children, qualities that are only hinted at best from the male Bible models.

Kheced is not just agape. It has a lot of phileo (intimate filial, brotherly, sisterly, motherly love) and even eros (emotional love). Kheced includes intimate fondness, highly emotional, nurturingly sacrificial, constant attachment to the object of love, truly jealous for their safety, security and well-being. Once we discern this from a mother's love, we get closer to a full and complete picture of the reckless, uncontrolling, jealous but matchless love of God

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