Mothers Are "Always" Mothers!

Mothers are mothers when we are babies, and they're still mothers when we're 65 and they're 85; Mothers are "always" Mothers.  They still tell you to be careful going home, and lock your doors even when you're 65 years old!

Do you ever wonder if Jesus Christ, our Lord, was a compliant, contemplative, studious child?  Did He ever shout "No," and throw tantrums as a child?  Did He scuff His knees and scrape His shins, or was He a quiet, deep-thinking introvert in those early years?  We know He went missing at the early age of twelve and was finally discovered in the Temple confounding and amazing the Doctors with His wisdom.

Mary knew who He was, but He was still a growing child, and she was ever and always a Mother.  We have to wonder what she thought when wisdom emerged from His young mouth.  He must have said things that astounded her, because of how He shocked all those in the temple with His teachings.  Here, we have a mother just like any other mother, except "her" child is Almighty God in the flesh!  How does an ordinary mother behave with an extraordinary baby?  Mary, on the other hand, was more than an ordinary mother, since she is the only mother in earth to have given birth to God!  When we think about this whole plan; we almost sit with our mouths open.  It's an ethereal story, humbling the redeemed, haunting the foolish, and beckoning the hungry ... 

We fast forward and Jesus is throwing out the money changers.  He's wielding His Holy authority in angry righteousness over their disregard for the House of God.  What is Mary thinking now?  As she has watched Him grow over the years and she has seen His very apparent power, visible in so many ways, did she struggle with the issue of Him being her son and Him being God?  She was, after all, first and foremost, still a mother. 

The years go by and she sees Him writing people's sins on the ground, healing a deaf woman, and so many other miracles.  She thought, "this is my son?"   All the while, the mother in her was laid aside as she observed the Messiah, the Savior of the world, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords "arise" day by day in the ordinary lives of everyone around her.  To her, He was still her son, her baby grown up, and her protective, nurturing instinct was still alive; it didn't matter that He was now in His 30's.  It didn't matter that He seemed to be tending the people in need  everywhere He went.  To the mother that she was, He would always be her baby, her son, or would He?

           

Then came the day when Mary's motherhood of this Son was given to another.  We can feel her heartbreak at the words, "When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son!"  Jesus Christ never called Mary "Mother;" He called her "woman" many times.  She knew in her heart who He was, but she carried Him within her for nine months; she nursed Him; she raised Him; she coddled and burped Him; she watched Him grow into a man, and now ... He was giving her to another to call him son!  In the mind of our Lord Jesus Christ were the famous words, "It is finished!"  The God who came in the flesh to die for all mankind had "borrowed" a woman's womb for just a little while, and now the God of the universe had completed the story, and Mary was no longer a mother.

But there's one thing nobody considers about "Mothers;" a mother never forgets the kicks in her womb, those little fingers, that sweet baby smell, that cooing baby smile, those baby giggles that thrill anyone who hears them; no matter how old the child; and nobody, "nobody" can take that away from her; she carries it to her dying day  ... even if she's been given away and told to mother another ...  It's because, and forever will be, that Mothers Are "Always" Mothers ...  Except one!

Mary holding Jesus after His death on the cross

Jesus Christ rises the third day

Jesus Christ leaves the tomb

Mary, the mother of Jesus in the Upper Room,

waiting to be filled with the Spirit of Jesus Christ!

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Pastor Kenneth Phillips and 

First Lady Wanda Phillips

(He will always be our earthly Father in the Lord and 

she will always be our Mother in the Lord)

PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas

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