Its Mother's Day again...add another year, another few more white hairs on the head... i woke early in pensive mood today to prepare for church. And as the kids all piled into the car, i looked at them, and said a silent prayer of thanks to the God who has guided me all these years into bringing up children who know Him as their Father in heaven, a father to the fatherless and a defender of widows.
Over the past 2 days I hd attended a prayer seminar, which really cut me to the heart, hearing the pastors talk about the days to come; when surely God's judgment shall come to pass upon all mankind. The Bible tells it, we know it, but we don't like to dwell on it, becoz it speaks of things we wld rather put off, like getting our lives right with God, becoz... we prefer to think..hey, man, don't be so morbid, things are fine, we are pretty "good" people, we do good, we try not to harm others, we don't kill, murder or steal, all we are interested in is to get a comfy life for ourselves, our kids, our families, we just wanna do our own thing... is that so wrong?
Guess not, but where is God in all this? I was trying to warn my kids over family time with them yesterday life is not all fun and games... if you know the world and all the things of the world shall pass away, how are we supposed to live today? We see so many 'unheard' of things happening this year alone ; Myanmmar never had a cyclone, Indonesia has been so torn apart by disaster after disaster, in M'sia, crime stats show 41% increase over just 3 months, 1 out of every 5 M'sian youths hv mental problems, (China apparently has 30 million of such people ), there are 60 new drug addicts every day.. we moan wats the world coming to? No place is safe, not the car park, the shopping mall, even outside our gates we get robbed!
I look at my kids, and i wonder wat kind of world they are gonna inherit... wat can i give them as a mother who loves them, wants to protect them and give them the best?
And again i m driven back to acknowledge in my heart that there is nothing i can give them that wld stand them in such troubling times as these, except that they have a Father God who they can turn to; not a human mother who is herself imperfect and so limited in what she can do for them .
So all i can do this Mother's Day is mouth a prayer that come what may, my kids will recognize and cling onto the only treasure, the only legacy their mom can ever give them - the knowledge that when everything is gone, when the world is all upside down, when storms blow, they can stand firm in Christ Jesus, becoz He is the rock of their salvation, and they will never be shaken..
I pray that they will look unto the things of God, that their eyes of their hearts will be opened to see the eternal stuff of the soul , and not be distracted by the temporary attractions of the flesh of this world, and that becoz they carry the light and the love of Jesus with them, they will make a difference to the lives around them, for as they have freely received; may they freely give....
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