Devotional

A Godly Mother


Fathers and mothers are the most natural agents for God to use in the salvation of their children. I am sure that, in my early youth, no teaching ever made such an impression upon my mind as the instruction of my mother.

Neither can I conceive that, to any child, there can be one who will have such influence over the young heart as the mother who has so tenderly cared for her offspring. A man with a soul so dead as not to be moved by the sacred name of ‘mother’ is creation’s blot.

Never could it be possible for any man to estimate what he owes to a godly mother.

Certainly, I have not the powers of speech with which to set forth my valuation of the choice blessing which the Lord bestowed on me in making me the son of one who prayed for me and prayed with me.

How can I ever forget her tearful eye when she warned me to escape the wrath to come? I thought her lips right eloquent. Others might not think so, but they certainly were eloquent to me.

How can I ever forget when she bowed her knee, and with her arms about my neck, prayed, ‘Oh, that my son might live before Thee!’

Nor can her frown be effaced from my memory, – that solemn, loving frown, when she rebuked my budding iniquities.

And her smiles have never faded from my recollection, – the beaming of her countenance when she rejoiced to see some good thing in me towards the Lord God of Israel. – C.H. Spurgeon


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We give thanks to the Lord as we congratulate Addy and Natasha Vuppal on the birth of their baby girl, Sarah Rachel. Sarah safely arrived on Friday, May 9, at 9:42 a.m., weighing 7 lbs, 10 ounces. She is a welcome sibling for her big brother Noah. Please keep the Vuppal family in your prayers.


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