Okay, I've been trying to make time to get this blogging thing started, but I'm going to cheat a little bit and use someone else's words for part of this post. I heard this in church this morning, and I thought it was wonderful to hear on Mother's Day:
The challenge of the twentieth-century motherhood is as old as motherhood itself. Although the average American mother has advantages that pioneer women never knew—material advantages: education, culture, advances made by science and medicine; although the modern mother knows a great deal more about sterilization, diets, health, calories, germs, drugs, medicines and vitamins, than her mother did, there is one subject about which she does not know as much—and that is God.
The modern challenge to motherhood is the eternal challenge—that of being a godly woman. The very phrase sounds strange in our ears. We never hear it now. We hear about every other kind of women—beautiful women, smart women, sophisticated women, career woman, talented women, divorced women, but so seldom do we hear of a godly woman—or of a godly man either, for that matter.
I believe women come nearer to fulfilling their God-given function in the home than anywhere else. It is a much nobler thing to be a good wife than to be Miss America. It is a greater achievement to establish a Christian home than it is to produce a second-rate novel filled with filth. It is a far, far better thing in the realm of morals to be old-fashioned than to be ultramodern. The world has enough women who know how to hold their cocktails, who have lost all their illusions and their faith. The world has enough women who know how to be smart.
It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need woman, and men, too, who would rather be morally right that socially correct. --Peter Marshall, former U.S. Senate chaplain
I have no doubt that God is using motherhood to draw me closer to Him, to make me die to myself on a daily basis. The book of Genesis states that women will be saved by childbearing. Some say that this means that women are redeemed from sin because we have the opportunity to raise godly children. I see that everyday I am fighting a battle of selfishness with myself. The more I give up my own will (a daily requisite of motherhood), the more I seek God's will. The more I serve others, the more I learn to serve God. I have to humble myself to God daily to do this job, to seek His grace, His mercy, His love, and His forgiveness for my many mistakes. I know that I cannot do this most important job without Christ.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
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