Abba's Love for Me

Do I know that...

...the Father knows my name?

"I will go before you and level the exalted places...I will give you the...hords in secret places...I call you by name." Is 45:2-4

...the Father keeps track of the the smallest details of my life?

"Even the hairs of your head are numbered." Matt. 10:30

...the Father collects my tears in a bottle?

"You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?" Ps 58:6

...the Father has inscribed me on the palm of His hand?

"Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me." Is 49:16

...the Father's heart is stirred and aroused with compassion for me?

"The Father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him." Ps 103:13

...the Father has a cord of love tethered to my heart and is gently drawing me closer?

"When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son...It was I who taught Ephraim to walk; I took them up by their arms, but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of kindness, with bands of love, and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws and I bend down to them and feed them." Hos 11:1, 3-4

Abba wants me, he desires a deep, abiding love relationship with me. He wants my heart. He says, "How I would set you among my sons, and give you a pleasant land, a heritage most beautiful of all nations. And I thought you would call me, My father, and would not turn from following me." Jer 3:19

Do I understand His love for me? Do I understand His desire to hold me, sing over me, breath on me? His desire for me has nothing to do with my performance. But His sheer love and delight in me, His daughter. Praise God!!

Father, come! Sing over me, hold me, breathe your breath of life over me until only you run out of me...only you Abba Father!

"...He will rejoice over you with gladness,

He will quiet you with His love,

He will rejoice over you with singing."

Zep 3:17

Mothering...a calling from the Father God

As I sat in the quiet of the morning, dry, weary, listening for the Lord to say just one word to me. For I knew that just one word from him would water the wilderness I was feeling in my spirit. I was parched and needing just sit in the river of the Father so that when my sweet children awoke they would find a mama who was refreshed and ready to mother. The Lord is faithful, always! He sat with me this morning and ministered in such a way so I could minister to my family. What He said was not profound revelation, but simply a reminder. A reminder that most mamas need every now and again.

Mothering is a CALLING from the heart of our Abba Daddy. I am not "just" a mother, a domestic slave as our culture would trap us to believe. No, I was called, created for this very vocation from the foundation of the world. It is not just the fixing of the meals, keeping the children clothed, housekeeping and home managing. Mothering is a HOLY calling, one that rocks the foundations of the world, one that storms the gates of hell, one that brings the kingdom of God to the very present moment we are living in. What shows the love of God more profoundly than families that love and honor one another? Who, but a mother, can orchestrate that love and honor better by building her home with her hands; loving, serving, and helping her husband; mothering her children, the arrows in her husbands quiver; running her home efficiently and with care? These traits are what mothers are created with that effectively usher in God's kingdom and His amazing love to this world, a world that is so in need of a savior.

Sometimes as mothers we just need a bit of holy perspective in the midst of mopping up dog hairs and muddy feet prints, cleaning bathrooms and making dinner. This job of mothering is not "just" some job, but a Holy, Godly, foundation building journey. Allow the Father to remind you just who HE created you to be. For we need not another earthly present for this mother's day, only a sweet word from the Father whose love for us and our families is so deep and wide that he called and chose us to be A MOTHER!!!