How to Achieve Biblical Motherhood.
Many have often wondered what the biblical definition of motherhood is. Mothers, have an eternal impact on the lives of their children. In this post let’s dive in to what the Bible says about motherhood, our role in society and the impacts we can make for future generations.
Achieving Biblical Motherhood: What the Bible Says about Mothers.
Mothers, and even spiritual mothers, have such an enormous role in the Kingdom. To guide, correct, train up, encourage, teach, disciple, lead, and so on. These traits that God has given to us as a parent, a mother, is paramount to the lives of our children that will effect future generations.
To understand your role and achieve biblical motherhood God’s way, you must understand who God is and know His word.
“And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
Deuteronomy 6:6–7
God’s Design in Motherhood.
In Deuteromy 6, it is clear what our job is as mothers. To keep God’s word in our hearts, to teach the word to our children throughout our day, daily. To know God’s word is to know Him. We must as Christian mothers, teach our kids the word of God. Not by memorizing the verses for the sake of repeating them back, but to help them understand what they mean and the importance of them.
I tell my children all the time that when we are memorizing scripture it is because we are to hide God’s word in our hearts. We use the word as the sword, and other armor to deflect our fleshly motives and the enemies attacks.
If we do not know the word and if it is not hidden in our hearts, we leave ourselves vulnerable to attack.
To achieve biblical status as a mother, it is so important that you teach the word to your children. If you are born again, this will come easy for you, you only need to ask Holy Spirit to guide and direct you and He will.
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A Mother’s Role in Society.
Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
Titus 2:4-5
This passage in Titus, sums up what it is to be a mother and wife. To walk as a living testimony to what Jesus died for you to walk in.
We play a major role, as Christian mothers, in society because we are forming the next generation.
Did you know the rate of stay at home mothers is in rapid decline since before the early 1960s? When being in the home, making a home, was the norm prior to 1950.
In 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 28% of children were raised by stay at home mothers. Compare our generation with the generations before 1950. What was the moral thinking like? Sure there was evil, there always will be, but as a nation or world, how were things?
This post is not saying you should be a SAHM if you are unable. However, if you are thinking about staying home to raise your children, this post may be helpful.
If more Christian mothers, stayed home to raise their children, even homeschool their children, imagine the impact that would have on the world. Children who are constantly in a peaceful setting with a mother who loves Jesus and teaching them all about him day in and day out.
What is my calling? If you are a mother, this is your calling.
It is time we step up to the plate and do what we need to do in this season of our lives. To die to ourselves, our selfish ambitions, greed for more things, and focus on Kingdom and storing treasures in Heaven and not in this earth.
I am by no means saying you can not work. There are so many things we as mamas can do while we stay home with our babies and children. Opportunities to work part time while keeping our children the focus of our lives under God and our husband. But the key is, if we choose to work at all, we must not let that hinder the raising up of our children. And always seek the Lord before you begin any new venture.
A Biblical Motherhood’s Impact.
As you have read so far, a biblical mother, in the home, will impact generations. Not just generations in the world but in your bloodline. When you are born again, made new, this impacts your future lineage! How amazing is that!
You have the ability to bring up little disciples for the Lord, what an honor!
My hope is that you will see just how important you are as a mother. Motherhood can seem so mundane at times. All of the cleaning, sorting, correcting your kids and so on. Our days are packed full from the time we wake until our head hits the pillow, and sometimes throughout the night.
We may have the most unflattering job at times in this world but for the Kingdom, it is glamorous!
Never forget the impact you have on letting God use you as a vessel to shape the next generation through you and your family.
Be the vessel mama, hold your head high and walk in step with the Spirit. God will never leave you or forsake you. These days may be hard at times but with Him, all things are possible.
This is Biblical Motherhood.
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