To everything there is a season, A time for every purpose under heaven. (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
- We rejoice with mothers for their precious babies who have come into the world.
- We counsel anxious mothers and try to assure them that God is watching over their rebellious teenagers.
- We stand with mothers at the bedside of injured or ill children and feel their pain.
- We cry with mothers in their grief when their son or daughter dies.
- Mary, the mother of Jesus, also experienced times of joy and sorrow.
- What joy she must have felt when the Christ-child was born! (Luke 2:7).
- What excitement when the shepherds and later the wise men came to worship Him (Luke 2:8-20; Matt. 2:1-12).
- What uneasiness when Simeon prophesied that a sword would pierce her soul (Luke 2:35).
- And what heart-wrenching grief as she watched her Son dying on the cross! (John 19:25-30).
- But her seasons of being a mother didn’t end with that terrible scene.
- She rejoiced that He rose from the grave.
- Mothers, and all of us for that matter, experience many great joys and intense sorrows.
- But when we submit our lives to the Lord, every season of life can serve His eternal purposes.
