Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers, grandmothers,
god-mothers, aunties, etc…
Mother’s Day is a day of joy, laughter, celebration and eating.
Sometimes,
as we celebrate Mother’s Day, we forget that before we can ever celebrate
Mother’s Day, there must first be the pain and suffering of child-birth.
Without
babies, there will be no mothers.
Without
mothers, there will be no Mother’s Day.
Each time we celebrate our birthday, we are also remembering the “mu nan ri” (母難日) of our mothers.
The
most difficult day for our mothers. A
day of suffering.
That is why there is a Chinese song that children are taught to sing from a young age, 世 上 只 有 妈 妈 好 (Shi shang zhi you mama hao). Mother’s love is the greatest in the world. Becos a mother’s love is unconditional and unmatchable!
I have told this story before:
There was a young lady who would always fight and quarrel with her mother.
One
day, after a very big fight, the young lady just packed and moved out of the home
far away.
The mother said good riddance and told her not to ever come back!
After many months, the mother received a letter from her daughter. The younger brother help to read the letter for the mother.
She wrote that she has just given birth to a baby girl and her name was so-and-so…
As the mother listened, her tears just flowed uncontrollably..
How
can a mother not love her very own child, even after what has happened?
How
can a mother forget the baby that she carried in her womb for nine months and
gave birth to?
The
first part of Isaiah 49:15 asks a rhetorical question,
“Can
a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has
borne?”
Can
or not? Can a mother forget her baby or
not? The answer is obviously "No"! A
mother can never forget the child that she gave birth to….
The
second part of verse 15 says,
“Though
she may forget,
I will not forget you!”
This verse talks of God’s unwavering love and faithfulness towards His children.
Even
if a mother can forget her own baby, God will never forget us!
What,
then, shall we say? If God did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us
all in order to give us new birth through the Holy Spirit—how will he not also,
along with him, graciously give us all things?
(Romans 8:31, 32)
Who shall separate us from the love of God? Nothing! Nothing can ever separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!
So, as we celebrate Mother’s Day, let us remember God’s eternal love demonstrated towards us by the death of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ.
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