Dear Friends of “Dial Daily Bread,”
What was it that made the virgin Mary to be the happiest mother of all time? (That is, before that huge “sword” pierced her soul.) The happiness that Mary experienced is shared by many mothers, for God made woman to feel happy becoming a mother--we praise Him for that thoughtfulness and kindness!
But aside from that natural happiness that every woman is intended to know in motherhood, the virgin Mary was especially happy! We read of it in Luke 1:45: Mary has just learned that she is to become pregnant with the Messiah, and in her joyous enthusiasm she dashes off to “the hill country” to have a visit with a cousin, an elderly woman named Elizabeth, the priest Zacharia’s wife, who is 6 months pregnant with John the Baptist.
Elizabeth greets her and bestows upon her this supreme benediction: “Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of those things which were told her from the Lord.” Every mother may share that blessing that comes from believing the Good News that the Lord is communicating to her.
Successful child-training comes from a mother believing the promises of God, but to believe requires a calm, thoughtful heart, free from fretfulness and impatience. Your child may annoy you or exasperate you. Now comes the real crisis: will you believe the Good News that God loves your child more than you do, and if you don’t get in His way, He will give you wisdom to train the child aright? Or will you doubt and disbelieve and allow Satan to put discouraging, fretful words in your mouth that will confuse your child?
Blessed is the mother who immediately reacts to every crisis, every problem, by believing the word of the Lord! A good prayer to pray every day is the one a distraught father once prayed: “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” (Mark 9:24). This dark world needs more mothers who will believe like Mary did, and refuse to speak unbelieving words!
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: December 11, 1998.
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