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Mother's Day
May 11, 2013

In the United States, Mother's Day is celebrated the second Sunday of May, and to mothers everywhere, thank you for the love and devotion given to your children. While children are appreciative for what their mothers do, children do not always understand the sacrifices made to keep the family together. Fathers also make the same types of sacrifices, and perhaps this is one of the reasons why God knew it was important for children to honor their parents.

Exodus 20:12
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

What is different about this commandment is that a promise is attached to it for obedience. By honoring your mother and father, God shows that this will add years to your life, and many times God doesn't even need to intervene to make this happen; simply listening to mom and dad and their wisdom can save you from danger.

Ephesians 6:1-4
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

As God is called our Father in Heaven, the Jerusalem above is referred to as a our mother. All we do is for the Kingdom of God that will be established upon the return of Jesus.

Galatians 4:21-31
Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

So as we prepare to celebrate Mother's Day, let us remember that we are children of the free woman, Jerusalem above, and as we honor mothers for all they do, we celebrate what is good, embrace what is good, and do what is good.

All verses are from the King James Version.
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