Happy Mother's Day!!!

From the Devotional book "The Promises of God" by H.M.S. Richards

Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee (Isa. 49:15).

Can a woman forget her child? She may, but it’s unnatural. A little girl was told by her busy mother to go and play with her dolls, but the child complained, “I just love them and love them, but they never love me back.” And so God keeps loving us and loving us, but often we do not love Him back. Yet He does not forget us, even as a mother does not forget her wandering son, but remembers him as her baby.

“If I am thy child, O God,” said Augustine at the time of his conversion, “it is because thou didst give me such a mother.” And surely many of us may say that.

Of the daughter of Pharaoh it is written, “She saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept” (Ex. 2:6). A true woman may resist many things, but no woman with a mother’s heart can resist the cry of her own child. How many thousands of mother’s have sacrificed their lives for their babies! The story is as old as the world and as sweet as heaven. God uses it to picture His love to us. “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

A true mother never forgets, never forsakes. She follows her babe through childhood, adulthood, and down to the end to the darkest path the world has ever known. She never forgets.

From the great father-mother heart of God comes the promise “Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.” He will not forget, because He loves and cares.

MEDITATION PRAYER: “Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old” (Ps. 25:6).