Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. Philippians 4:6
This week leading up to Mother’s Day we have been talking about the legacy a mother leaves her children. Just like packing a lunchbox, mother’s “pack” their children’s lives full of good things for them to take with them through life.
Pack the Lunchbox Prayerfully
– God will use it!
The mother’s work is revealed in the child as God brings it to pass. Her legacy comes to fruition. We want to see God use them and we want to see them prepared and available for God to use.
The mother’s work is revealed in the child as God brings it to pass. Her legacy comes to fruition. We want to see God use them and we want to see them prepared and available for God to use.
You can pack your child’s lunch with all the good things they need, but
it is up to them to use them the right way.
If they eat the Twinkie and throw the fruit away, it is out of your
hands, you have done the right thing. If
they trade with their friend who has a hot dog and Cheetos, a coke, and a
brownie for desert, you have no control over that. All you can do is pack their lunch and send
them on their way. The same goes for a
legacy. You can build the legacy and
pass it on, but then it is up to them.
As mothers, we have a wonderful gift mixed with huge
responsibility. We have been blessed to
have the privilege of being a mother but at the same time it comes with so much
responsibility. You have more influence
in your child’s life than anyone else - the power to influence your child for
good or evil. We want our children to be
focused, capable, courageous, have a right mental attitude and spirit. We want to see God use them and we want to
see them available for God to use
them.
About Mothers…
- Laura Ingalls Wilder said, Lessons learned at a
mother’s knee last through life. She also said, The mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the
greatest, strongest, and most lasting teacher her children have.
- One
mother achieves more than a hundred teachers says a Yiddish Proverb
- Abraham Lincoln
said, The greatest lessons I ever
learned were at my mother’s knees.
- Thomas Edison said: I did not have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence which has lasted all my life. The good effects of her early training I can never lose. If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never likely have become an inventor. I was always a careless boy, and with a mother of different spiritual caliber, I should have turned out badly. But her firmness, her sweetness, her goodness were potent powers to keep me in the right path. My mother was the making of me.
- The great Baptist preacher, G.
Campbell Morgan had four sons. They all became preachers. At a family
reunion a friend asked one of the sons, Which Morgan is the greatest preacher? With his eyes beaming
with delight, the son looked over to his father and said, Why, it’s Mother!
Mother, what legacy are you leaving your children? Are you preparing them with scripture,
learned at church and practiced at home?
Are you leading your children to Christ?
Are you training your children to serve, equipping, directing, and
preparing them to meet the challenges of Christians today? What will your children say when challenged
by the world, peers, and the godless culture that exists today? I challenge you to be intentional about your
mothering, shepherding your children from your heart. Lead them, pray with them, help them, and
make it your mission with God for the eternal well-being of your child.
Scripture to Claim:
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6
