Daily Devotion
With Pastor Ancel Presnell
“IF NOT FOR MOTHER”
Each year in May, Mothers across the globe get one day of recognition. That just doesn’t seem fitting considering all that they do day in, and day out. Honoring them each day is more fitting for their endless and unwavering role in giving us love and support. Had it not been for your mother, you would not be alive today!
Our mothers willingly went out onto the plank of death when she gave birth to us. The struggle for a mother begins long before the actual childbirth. We begin depending on our mothers long before we come out of the womb. The life of a child is dependent upon the mother from the moment of conception and seems to never end throughout life.
In the first book of the Bible, God outlines the struggle that every mother will endure; This struggle is a by-product of the universal sin of man that cursed all of creation on that fateful day in the Garden of Eden. Genesis 3:16—”16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children”
It is quite possible that the most traumatic experience any of us ever endured is being born, and we don’t even remember it. There is one person who remembers it; She was there for the entire experience. Yes, our mother was there for all of it. Think about the incredible changes that we endured. We were forced to leave our comfortable habitation in the womb. We are forced to live our lives much differently than our first 9 months of existence once we are born. We were forced to face any number of uncertain health risks once being born. Well, there is another person who signed up for this traumatic experience, it was our mother. She was there with and for us through the entirety of the traumatic process.
In America, all mothers who have given birth since January 23, 1973, should be given public applause and thanks. It was on this day in American history that mothers were granted the legal right to murder their unborn child. America has been a very bloody nation with the slaughter of over 63 million babies since that fateful day of legislation. If you were born in America from that day forward, your mother chose your life when she did not have to legally.
If not for Mothers, the world would be a much darker and difficult place to live in. If not for mothers, we could not celebrate mothers. If not for mothers, we would have no life to live. If not for mothers, humanity would end. Thank God for our mothers!
