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Thoughts on Mothers' Day



Mum's are very special.   They have so many things to do to organize all that their children need, these days often helped very much by Dad. When there is a new baby in the house everything revolves around it.  This is the sort of mother looking after her baby's every need that God spoke of in our Bible reading from Isaiah. He said that mother's do not usually forget their babies, but even if they did He God would not forget His children.  The Bible is a wonderful book. Back in the time of the prophet Isaiah who wrote these words down, the children of Israel, God's people were going through a very difficult time in their life.  They had been taken captive and taken away from their own country and made to live in another country where they had to obey a foreign people. We see this in the following verses.

49:14 “Zion said, ‘The Lord has abandoned me,
 the sovereign master has forgotten me.’
 49:15 Can a woman forget her baby who nurses at her breast?
 Can she withhold compassion from the child she has borne?
 Even if mothers were to forget,
 I could never forget you!

When life gets difficult we can think God has forgotten us, but if we are His children He will never desert us. In the New Testament we read these words.

“I will never leave you and I will never abandon you. So we can say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What can man ho to me?" Hebrews 13 verses 4-6
So from both the Old and New testament we find that God promises not to forget us and never to leave us.

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