If you're like me, you might be starting to think you're in over you head when it comes to being the kind of mom God has called you to be. and that's okay, because you are. We all are, and that's by design. I believe God knew what he was doing when he decided to give inexperienced young women the responsibility of raising children.
In fact, I think God must smile when he sees a mother with her child teaching and training, loving and correcting, sometimes failing and sometimes getting it right. He understands mothers. After all, he is a father who has watched his own kids struggle and succeed.
HE knows firsthand the soul-altering love of a parent. And like mothers, God is always at work to shift and shape, clarify, and correct the hearts of his children.
Make no mistake, motherhood is tough, and it's not for the faint of heart. In my sixteen years of parenting our six kiddos(and many others), I've learned how weak I can be and how strong God is. I've come to believe that God wants to use my role as a mother to give me a glimpse into his Father-heart for all His children.
He knows I'm going to need it!
None of us start out strong.
The good news is that God doesn't require strength for the journey, he offers it. He wants to make us strong, but we have to truly want his strength in order to find it. How do we receive it?
By acknowledging our own weakness.
Coming to terms with weakness is soo liberating. When we finally admit that we can't do it on our own and look to Jesus, we're about to be set free.
Free from the past.
Free from other people's expectations.
Free from worry.
Free to love.
Free to grow.
Free to move with confidence into the future. Claiming his strength is where becoming strong begins.
In Christ, you are strong, safe, sealed and secure. You are a channel of the love and life of God for your children.
God has given us the blueprint that is found in the Bible. He has entrusted us with bringing up the next generation, and he says that his strength is made perfect in our weakness.
In fact, I think God must smile when he sees a mother with her child teaching and training, loving and correcting, sometimes failing and sometimes getting it right. He understands mothers. After all, he is a father who has watched his own kids struggle and succeed.
HE knows firsthand the soul-altering love of a parent. And like mothers, God is always at work to shift and shape, clarify, and correct the hearts of his children.
Make no mistake, motherhood is tough, and it's not for the faint of heart. In my sixteen years of parenting our six kiddos(and many others), I've learned how weak I can be and how strong God is. I've come to believe that God wants to use my role as a mother to give me a glimpse into his Father-heart for all His children.
He knows I'm going to need it!
None of us start out strong.
The good news is that God doesn't require strength for the journey, he offers it. He wants to make us strong, but we have to truly want his strength in order to find it. How do we receive it?
By acknowledging our own weakness.
Coming to terms with weakness is soo liberating. When we finally admit that we can't do it on our own and look to Jesus, we're about to be set free.
Free from the past.
Free from other people's expectations.
Free from worry.
Free to love.
Free to grow.
Free to move with confidence into the future. Claiming his strength is where becoming strong begins.
In Christ, you are strong, safe, sealed and secure. You are a channel of the love and life of God for your children.
God has given us the blueprint that is found in the Bible. He has entrusted us with bringing up the next generation, and he says that his strength is made perfect in our weakness.
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