Are you feeling worthless and unappreciated as you mother in your home. It is easy to get these negative feelings, isn’t it? I can remember often feeling like a failure. But God always has a word for us.Galatians 6:7 states: “Let us not be weary I well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.” In other words, no matter how you feel, don’t give up! Most translations of this Scripture say these very words: “DON’T GIVE UP!”
I was encouraged as I checked the words “well doing.” The word “well” is “kalos.” Did you know that this word describes our life as a wife and mother in the home? Titus 2:3-5 tells the older women to be teachers of “good” things and the word is “kalos.” Sometimes we think that what we are doing in the home is mundane and useless. But God says it is BEAUTIFUL, lovely, valuable, and virtuous! It may seem insignificance to the world’s eyes, but it is BEAUTIFUL to God’s eyes.
The word “doing” is “poieo” and means “to make, to do, bring forth, execute.” A fuller meaning is” to bring forth something which when produced has an independent existence of its own.” I think this is so true of motherhood. The years of loving, nurturing, and training our children are not wasted. They add up to fruitfulness. They bring forth a strong family that stabilizes and strengthens the nation. Our mothering today establishes godly families for the future that take on a life of their very own!
Can I encourage you, dear mother, that on these days of feeling like a failure, feeling hopeless, or unappreciated, please keep on with your beautiful works. There is coming a day when you will reap your reward.
The New Living Translations says: “So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing IF WE DON’T GIVE UP!”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
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Chatting with a couple recently, the husband said to me, “I’m concerned about our teenage daughter. When she gets up in the morning, she is very uncommunicative and miserable. The wife spoke up on her behalf and said, “Oh I think she’s just tired.”
It seems that many mothers find cooking for their families a chore. “Oh no, not another meal to cook for this hungry family.” “Here I go again, day after day, day after day, with no let up!”
In my post yesterday I wrote the phrase, TOTALLY DESTROY THE CANAANITE CULTURE! Wow, that’s a rather strong statement, isn’t it? But that was the heading of Deuteronomy chapter 7 in my Bible. And yes, that is exactly what God told them to do. They were to totally destroy it.
I was amazed again this morning as I read Deuteronomy 7:6 where God describes who He intends His people to be—and this promise continues to His blood-bought people today: “For thou art an HOLY PEOPLE unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a SPECIAL PEOPLE unto himself, ABOVE ALL PEOPLE that are upon the face of the earth.”
(a tribute to mothers everywhere)
Don’t be deceived by pursuing a lesser career than the one God has given you—the mighty career of motherhood, nurturing, teaching, and preparing the next generation into their destiny to impact this world, and ultimately eternity.
Are you still as madly in love with your husband as when you were first married? Or more? If not, it’s time to get out of the rut and do some work on your marriage. Get back to your first love. Say the things and do the things you did in the beginning that sparked your love. Turn up the element. When you turn off an element it soon gets cold. You’ve got to keep the heat turned up day and night to keep your marriage hot. Don’t even leave it on medium. Turn it up to full heat.
Of course, your husband will lead the family on Bible reading and prayer, but we as mothers prepare the way. We make the time and place and gather the family together. I have always found that the best time for our family worship is at the end of meal because the family are already gathered together. There’s nothing like food to bring the family together. We feed the body but we never leave the table until we have also nourished the soul and spirit.
Live a life of blessing and it will boomerang back to bless you. Bless you husband with words of love and positivity. Bless your children with words of kindness and encouragement. Bless everyone you meet with uplifting words. As you bless others, you will be uplifted too!
MOTHER, as you begin this year, I want to remind you who you are:
Dear mother, are you feeling weary and fatigued? You are running out of energy. Jesus understands. Did you know that even as the Son of God on earth He had times of feeling weary too?
Oh, come and see what God has done! How did He come? How did God choose to send His Son? We immediately think of how He came as a little helpless baby. But first He came into a womb, the womb of a young virgin. Luke 1:31 states: “And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy WOMB, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.” Who could ever dream of such a thing? Our Savior, Jesus Christ related to every aspect of our humanity, even to being conceived and growing in the womb of a woman.
If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not show love to my family, I'm just another decorator.
Charles Hadden Spurgeon writes: "It would not be easy for some of us to recall the hour when we first heard the name of Jesus. In very infancy that sweet sound was as familiar to our ear as the hush of a lullaby. Our earliest recollections are associated with the HOUSE OF GOD, THE FAMILY ALTAR, THE HOLY BIBLE, THE SACRED SONG, and THE FERVENT PRAYER."