"A Son's Mother"

A BLAST FROM THE WORD
By Sandra Rhynes

“A Son’s Mother”

Luke 2:19 “But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart”

There are many thoughts in my heart today as I think about this Christmas Season. As I look at my own baby son, I think about Mary’s son born so long ago, how things were so different for her. No hospital to have her baby in, not even a house, just a lowly stable where animals were born. No bed for her baby, with comforter, bed shirt and pillow, just a bunch of dirty hay. She must have loved her baby son just as much as I do my own. And…yet…to have hers grow up and hang on a cross and to see and feel the pain with her son…I don’t know if I would be willing to see mine on a cross even if my heart had already been prepared for this. I am too human to have gone through with it. Many times we have to put our feeling aside to follow the will of the Lord. I shudder to think how things might have been if Mary would have said no to God. He knew just who to pick for the great task of bringing one small boy into the world, one small boy to grow up and become the Savior of the world. I wonder if Mary really ever knew to the fullest extent of just what a service to mankind God allowed her to do. What service is God allowing you to do in your life for Him? Are you willing to make the kind of sacrifice that Mary made to serve God? I also wonder if we are made of as strong of stuff as Mary was.