Mommy Life: Mother's Day Devotion

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May 14, 2006 1:34 PM

Mother's Day Devotion

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I received this from a friend of mine this morning and she has given me permission to share it with you:

Meditations on Psalm 146
by Liesl Garner, Mother’s Day, May 14, 2006

Praise the Lord - - ( Hallelu Yah )

Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save. When their spirit departs they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing.

In the days of battles – I’m sure princes would offer and promise help to their allies and then fail to arrive at the crucial time.
I find myself often wishing my husband would rescue me from trying moments of frustration and feeling overwhelmed with my two-year old. Yet I know he helps as much as he can - - today for example, he’s struggling with miserable allergies, so any hopes of me getting a break because it’s Mother’s Day are pretty much out the window. He can barely breathe or function at the moment.

Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them – the Lord, who remains faithful forever.

My God is never going to turn me away because He’s too busy, or stressed out, or just wants to watch television. When I’m tired or frustrated and turn to Jesus, He is going to listen and care and lift me up and support me and put joy in my heart and lighten my load and His Peace will He give me.
Ahhhh ~ ~

Why do I stress myself out trying to get this kind of reaction to my woes from any human. No human could do all the comforting and joy infusing that my God can do!

He upholds the cause of the oppressed.

As a mother – do you ever feel oppressed? For a tiny, brief second, after reading this verse, I can feel that way, and then God helps me get real and remember there are modern day martyrs and victims of abuse at the hands of tyrants – many of these people are standing firm under outrageous oppression because the Lord God is upholding them and strengthening their resolve to stay true to Him because He is so very real to them. Praise God – and let us continue to lift these dear ones up in our prayers.

and gives food to the hungry,

I know God miraculously fills cupboards for His children in need – He also fills us with spiritual food when we have been skipping meals away from His banquet table and are wasting away to nothing. When we have been relying on our own meager ability to provide for ourselves and gotten so busy we can’t take a moment to enjoy the sprawling table laden with delights and the warm laughter of a family stretching through generations.
When it suddenly dawns on us that God has spread His table and desires to feed us with choice morsels and encouragement and hope and understanding from our brothers and sisters that have gone before us, or the pilgrims right here and now along with us – when we rush into His arms again and sit ourselves down to enjoy a meal with Him – to read His word and be filled with its goodness – God gives our hungry souls food to sustain us like no other food under heaven.

The Lord sets prisoners free,
the Lord gives sight to the blind.
The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down,
the Lord loves the righteous.

This is all so amazing. I think on a daily basis – without the Lord’s intervention, I am all of these. I am a prisoner to my own way of thinking – to my “poor me” rotten attitude, I am blind to beauty and deliverance all around me, I am bowed down by the weight of the world. And of course, in the moment, I can feel totally justified in giving into feeling sorry for myself or feeling overworked and under appreciated – until it’s all laid out in front of me like this and then I see how silly I’m being to get caught up like this. Praise God that He loves us even through all our melodramatic crisis meltdowns over nothing.
The Lord is gracious and generous, and usually in a gentle way, helps us focus on what is important and gets us to redirect our thinking back to the righteousness we desire.

The Lord watches over the alien and sustains the fatherless and the widow.

For all those who are lonely for family, for a connection, for a place to belong and be welcomed – to be Home – God gives shelter and open arms.

but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

They will not always prevail.

The Lord reigns forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations.

Praise the Lord - - ( Hallelu Yah )

And, as a giant bonus, I have to give my husband credit. The whole time I have been dwelling on this scripture, and writing out my thoughts, and being blessed and refreshed; he has been keeping the baby occupied and weeding the flowerbed and planting the rose bushes – sniffling and sneezing and hanging in there like a trooper.
Benny is trying really hard to help, which only makes the job more difficult – so I am getting a delicious break – the priceless gift of Mother’s Day – I am getting time for God’s Word and God’s Spirit to pour over me.

Thank you Lord! – and big kisses for my hubby!

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Love,