It was entirely fitting that on Mother’s Day we celebrated the dedication of a baby at our church. Grace, born in October last year, was brought by her parents to the church for prayer and blessing, dedicating her to the Lord and asking God’s help in bringing her up ‘in the discipline and instruction of the Lord’. May God bless this family as they experience the joys (and pains) of parenting and bless Grace, who is a delight and blessing already to us as a church as well as to her immediate family.
Mark looked at various mothers in the Bible, focussing on Eve (‘the mother of all living’), Hannah (who knew what it was to be blessed by God, receiving the gift of children after many years of barrenness and heartache), and Mary, favoured by God to be the earthly mother of Jesus. May we too learn to seek God and to fulfil our vows to God and to be wholly yielded to Him, willing to do whatever He asks of us.