Of late I have had this strange ..okay not strange..unusual interest on how mothers interact with their children...I think my maternal instincts just kicked in. I get myself gazing every morning at mothers carrying their kids to school on their backs just to avoid the kid getting mud in this rainy season. My salonist the other day shared with me how a mother can never tell her child that she does not have when the child asks for something especially food, (as if the son heard he ran into the salon and kept telling the mom " I want cake" after he was given the ten shillings he went like " Is there tea?" the mother just nodded) and yes...that's a mother and her child. She is always prepared, planning ahead for her children, she would rather starve than let her kid go hungry and just recently in the news where a mother died while protecting her baby from gun shots...wow! what kind of love is this!!
I especially love how most Kenyan mothers discipline their kids...the rod is never spared...we are always making fun at home how our neighbor's kid is always waking up crying because he doesn't want to go to school and the drama that goes on between him and his mother until he finally goes to school...and when he gets back when he is forced to do his homework.
Mothers discipline their kids out of love and no matter how much a child may get their mother mad the mother wouldn't hesitate to give their lives for them.
They are simply God's angels on earth....
Anyway this is not a post for mothers...I will save that for another day but my point is we can compare the relationship between mothers and their kids with us and God. He loves us unconditionally! He corrects us out of love and He is protective over us.
Picture it this way...when a child is crying to have sugar and the mother refuses...the child does not get the reasoning behind it which is the mother is protecting the child from a lot of diseases....the same way...we at times want something so much in a way when we do not get it we get depressed, we even at times give up at that point we never understand the logic behind it, I mean you prayed for that thing, you worked hard to get it...but we never stop for a second and think at times its usually God protecting us from things we thought we wanted which would have caused us a lot of heartache in the end
Jeremiah 29:11: For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 1: 5: Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
Also picture this...a kid is being cautioned by the mum not to touch a burning candle but they go ahead and do it and get burned. The mother's first response is to help the child then scold later or for our Kenyan mothers do both at the same time (I know my mum would). The same way most of the situations we get ourselves into that may cause heartaches or other consequences are usually a result of our disobedience to God's word...but the minute you ask for His help and His leading He is always ready to help and put together the broken pieces but He will correct you in love.
2 Timothy 3:16:All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
Prov 29:15:The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
The third scenario.... a child needs something to eat or for school or for whatever viable reason and goes to the mother...the mother always does her best according to her ability to provide she would climb the highest mountain to get it..... the same way God tells us ask and you shall receive...seek me and you will find me....knock and the door will be opened to you...most of the time we lack because we do not ask...God unlike mothers can do the impossible for you, so dare to dream big ..dare to ask Him to use you to do great things on this earth and by faith you will be amazed by what your life will turn out to be.
Last scenario.....the mother who died protecting her child from gun shots....proving a mother's love will make her give her life for her child. A mother protects her child with her life, she will wrestle a tiger if she has to....now imagine what your Father in Heaven would do for you. He gave His ONE AND ONLY son to die on the cross for your sins so would never know how much it cost...He took your place on the cross...how amazing is that???
Romans 5:8: But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us
John 3:16:For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
God loves you unconditionally! His love is the ONE thing in your life that will never be taken away from you! He wants the best for you...He is NOT mad at you but MAD ABOUT YOU. Go through this day and the rest of your days knowing that.....
