Motherhood is a journey many ladies may want to walk. Motherhood is itself birthed in pains, though the sight of the baby is pleasurable. It may be that, perhaps, you are pondering the motherhood path yourself with its pleasures and pains. Or you are a mother seeking encouragement and insights from another’s experience.
… God’s Glory in the Pleasurable Pains of Motherhood
โ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฑ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐.โ Job 1:22
Recently, thieves stole a friendโs laptop, phone, documents, bank cards, driving permit, and some cash. He was on his way from work. It was nighttime. He escaped with his life only after relinquishing his material belongings. As he put it, thieves took his โentire work.โ
… Mercenaries or Disciples?
The reader of the Gospel of Mark must mark the stark contrast between Jesusโ view of His kingdom and that of His immediate disciples. While Jesus descends from the throne to the cross, His disciples only imagine their comfortable ascension to their thrones.
There is a popular and perilous rumour around, inspired by the late Myles Munroe and Benny Hinn. It says that the Sovereign of the universe requires manโs permission to do anything on earth. โThe only creature that God gave authority in the earth, legally to, is a spirit in a dirt body,โ maintains Munroe. โAny spirit without a body is illegal on planet earthโ he says, before remarking that โeven God Himself is illegal on earth.โ
God is a person that forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. This truth is deeply embedded in the revelation ofย Godโs characterย to Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 34:7).
Opulence naturally appeals to us. Poverty repels. Therefore, prosperity preaching is as popular as it is perilous.
Jesus died. For you. Let this sip and sink into your heart as percolating water irrigating the dry land. Do not resist it. Do not rush it. Meditate, in silence.
The African concept of Ubuntu, which loosely translates as ‘I am because we are, and because we are therefore I am’ insists that to be human consists in a continual community of being, knowing, and becoming.
Shame and blame, dread and doubt, hang on Adam as a weighty stone on a suspended thread. His sin has found him out, and with it comes inner condemnation, a testament to a broken relationship and a betrayal of trust.
There is no salvation for Man apart from the grace of God in Christ. The Bible affirms that it is โby grace you have been saved through faithโ (Eph. 2:8). Salvation by grace through faith is what separates Christianity from other religions in the world which are works-based.
