Are you a Mom of a prince or princess? Albert Schweitzer said, “An example is not the main thing in influencing others…it is the only thing.” We teach what we know, BUT we reproduce what we are! We should never under estimate the power of our influence…both for good and evil.
On a scale of 1-10 how would you say you are using your power of influence for good, mom? What would your children say? With the multitude of distractions from the world and its cultural pressure to sway you to adopt what your conscience has already told you is wrong…”how ya’ doin?”
“Without a vision the people perish.” Pro. 29: 18 What is your vision for your child? “We have been created in Christ Jesus for a life of good works that he has already prepared for us to do.” Do you sense God’s vision for us and our children in that verse? Do you hear the destiny and purpose in that promise?
Each child entrusted to us by God has a personal destiny and specific purpose, as you do. My children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are the fulfillment of my vision for the future. My investment today will determine the fulfillment of that determination…tomorrow.
Authentic answerability is taking responsibility for becoming the godly mother with a sacrificial heart that will walk carrying the burden of HIS heart. That makes being a mom a doable task empowered by our God that can and will do it, when we are yielded to His leadership and submitted to HIS vision and purpose for us and our children. I Thess. 5: 24
Can you hear the clear voice of God when He speaks to you? He speaks in ideas. The most important aspect of motherhood is learning to hear and respond to HIS promptings and to teach your child to do the same. Are you acquainted with that still quiet voice? “Be still and know that I am God” is written with promise, direction and intentional purpose.
If you are a mother, you have a calling from God. God entrusting into your care…a life, a future, a piece of what the world will become. For those of you who have entered the battle with a vision and often feel overwhelmed…“let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we will reap, if we faint not” for “His divine power has given us everything we need…” Gal. 6:19; II Pet. 1: 3
Will you take time to listen to that “still quiet voice” this week?
Those little feet stepping into your footsteps are counting on it…
~Jackie Johnson - I am a former tribal missionary to the Kuna Indians on the Colombian border in Central America. Fluent in several languages, my husband and I currently pastor a Spanish-speaking church in Southern California. My passion is mentoring and equipping dedicated young women for life, marriage, motherhood, and beyond. I am the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three Princesses and four young Knights.
