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- Mother's
Day is always accused of being a commercial holiday, but in reality,
congress approved a proposal to set the day aside almost a hundred
years ago.
It can be a difficult day for many,
but I would like to remind you that everyone who has sought the
Lord with all his or her heart has had a spiritual mother.
A real woman of God is always ready to open her heart for one
more, and take that one on in prayer. A spiritual mother will
answer hard questions honestly, and will say things that must
be said when no one else will say them.
A real spiritual mother is appointed
by the Lord, and there are those who have been "raised"
by women who have already been in heaven for generations. For
example, Elisabeth Eliot credits Amy Carmichael with being her
spiritual mother. She has read her books, memorized her poetry,
studied her life, and even when she was a pre-teen, she wanted
to emulate, not just the woman, but the One she could see in
Amy's life.
When I first met the Lord,
I asked Him for an older woman from whom I could learn and through
whom He would speak to me. I knew the value of those relationships,
and I longed for it. Sure enough, the Lord assigned me to a woman
who is twenty-one years older than I, a woman of prayer, and
a marvelous soldier with much history on the battlefield.
We seldom see each other, but
I have taken every word she has said to me, and have seen the
Lord in submitting to her comments. Some of them have been intensely
personal, and some have been about the length of my bangs and
the covering up of my white hairs.
We have knelt and prayed
together, sung together, eaten together, and she has simply been
herself. The Lord has given me sight that has come out of her
own submission to Him.
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so today, I thank the One who gives more than abundantly for
my spiritual mother.
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