This coming Sunday is a day that people all around America focus on their mothers. It’s one day in the year where we try to give our mom’s greater appreciation. If you’re a mom, you may have received a note or flowers or some kind of gift from your children. All those things are wonderful, and I can understand why we would do these things for our moms. They have exponential influence. Personally, I’ve been more influenced by my mom and my wife than by most men. I’m grateful for the godly women in my life, aren’t you? We ought to be, and we ought to “give honor to whom honor is due.”
But we can’t stop there. And I need to emphasize something very important for this coming Sunday. We are not gathering together in order to focus on mom. No, we gather together to focus on God’s glory in the face of Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit! You see, if you’re a godly mom, you’re coming to church because you want your children to focus on the Lord (not you).
Like John the Baptist said “he must increase and I must decrease,” that’s the confession of any godly mother. As a result, a godly mother is a disciple-making disciple, and her greatest joy is when her children are followers of Jesus! So our focus is not only on our moms, but on the saving grace of Jesus Christ Who died for us and purchased us. In praising God together, we give testimony of God’s amazing grace at work through our mothers and I imagine that any godly mother would rejoice in seeing her children walk in the truth. So let’s all together rejoice in Jesus’ work in saving us and working through even our family (and our moms) to point us to the magnificence of Jesus.