I ain't got no mudder...especially on Mothers Day

kisstheson said:

My mom committed suicide when I was a baby but here’s what healed my heart...I wrote this several years ago. maybe this may help someone else who has grown up without a mom or who has lost their mother and feels the hurt especially on Mother’s Day. Or...maybe you have lost a child.

A long time ago, even in eternity past you and I were in the heart of the Trinity. This heart was like a womb for in order for something to be birthed there needs to be a womb. The full expression of this womb within God was found in Jesus.

The coming of Christ as an infant was not only the beginning of His human life here on earth but it was also the coming of us in Him. For all of His life Jesus carried us within Himself. The days He experienced hardship, thirst, the heat of the desert, the cold winter rains, sweat and toil, times of rejection, sadness ~ these were all labor pains. Jesus wouldn’t have traded these pains for anything for He dearly loved what He carried in His heart-womb, you and I. We were so special and precious to Him. He, Abba and Spirit delighted in the glorious secret growth of God’s holy intention.

Jesus was the one Vine, the shoot of Jesse planted in the barren earth. He had yet many branches within, unseen to the world. Jesus had great joy in His hidden knowledge and He longed for the day when that which was hidden would be revealed.

"I have a baptism to undergo. How I am longing for it to be accomplished."

"With great desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer."

So often people who did not understand who Jesus was and His hidden mystery tried to kill Him but that was before His time. Only a mother truly knows when it is time. Our mother Jesus knew when the time had come for us to be delivered.

"A woman when her times has come is sad because she knows she is about to deliver a child into the world. But once she has delivered her child her sadness turns into joy." Jesus said these words at the last supper, the night before His death. He announced His time had come.

He had carried us through eternity past, and into His incarnation, throughout all the days of His boyhood, even unto His manhood and now in the prime of His life the labor pains intensified. Throughout His Passion how terrible the pain.
The beatings
The lashing
The crowning of thorns
The mocking
The spitting
The carrying of the cross
The crucifixion

All during His contractions Jesus never lost focus of you and I. He knew and loved us as any good mother would love her child in the womb. He knew we would have days of great joy, days when we would experience a wonderful closeness with Him, days when we would be obedient, when we would learn and grow, but He also knew there would be days we would stumble and fall, days when we would disobey and throw temper tantrums wanting our own way. He even knew there would be days when we would distance ourselves from our good mother. Yet this knowledge did not in the least cause Jesus to say even for a second, "No the pain of their disobedience will be too much. If I can’t have them absolutely perfect I will not go through with this birth."

No good mother would ever think such a thing, neither did Jesus.

One thing our heavenly mother Christ had which earthly mothers lack was the full knowledge of how we would look when we were all "grown up." Jesus saw our perfected state as well but He knew we could not be perfected unless we remained in Him. So our birth would have to be different than natural birth. We would have to remain intimately united to Him and utterly dependant on Him. How could this happen? What miracle would bring about this wondrous expression of His heart?

I don’t want us to miss what Jesus is really talking about when He says in John 15 "I am the vine you are the branches." The term mother may throw us because it immediately cause us to think of the feminine. Yet God uses the Hebrew term, El Shaddai. There is song made popular by Amy Grant with the same title and has been sung by perhaps thousands of Christians. Here’s some research I did on the meaning of the phrase.

El-Shaddai
(God Almighty)

This name is first used in connection with Abram.
Gen 17:1-2
1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD (Jehovah) appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God (El-Shaddai); walk before me, and be thou perfect.
2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
(KJV) El-Shaddai is translated "God (El) Almighty (Shaddai)". The name Elohim is also translated into "God Almighty". How then do these two names differ? Elohim (meaning "All Powerful One") is evident throughout the story of creation. It is derived from the root "El" which means "Power, Might, Exceeding Greatness" and is translated into Almighty God as well many times in the Bible. Many scholars believe the difference lies in the fact that in God’s dealings with Abram, special circumstances (the age of Abram and the deadness of Sarai’s womb) required special powers to bring about the fulfillment of His promise. Powers which cause nature to perform contrary to natural law. Scripture certainly seems to support this theory in the account of God’s dealings with Abram and Sarai. We know from God’s Word that, in spite of natural law, Sarai (Sarah) bore Isaac. However, many believe that the meaning of Shaddai is much deeper than this.
In the year 250 B.C., a group of Jewish scholars translated the Scriptures into Greek. This version of the Bible is called the Septaugint. These scholars translated the Hebrew Shaddai into the Greek word ikanos which means "all-sufficient". The word Shaddai occurs some 48 times in the Old Testament and is always translated "almighty" in the King James Version. Now consider that fact that the Hebrew word shad is used 24 times and is always translated as "breast". In the same way that a mother’s breast is "all-sufficient" for her newborn’s nourishment, God is "all-sufficient" for His people. Hence, when we combine El (Almighty God) with Shaddai (All-sufficiency) we have " The Almighty God who pours out sustenance and blessing". Now the remaining question is "Does God’s Word support this theory?" Let’s look at Genesis Chapter 49. In this chapter, we see Jacob giving last words to his sons. Let’s begin reading at verse 24.
Gen 49:24-25
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God (El) of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel
25 Even by the God (El) of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty (Shaddai), who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: The usage of the names here is obvious. It is God as El (Omnipotent, Almighty, All-Powerful) who helps in time of need, but God as Shaddai (All-Sufficient) who satisfies with abundant blessings "of the breasts and of the womb". This clearly indicates that the righteous and loving God Jehovah cares for us as a mother cares for a newborn child. Everything we could possibly need, exactly when we need it, God IS!
(For other references to this same usage, see Isaiah 60:15-16 and Isaiah 66:10-13.)

So why is this so important? Jesus’ caring for us is very real and intimate as evidenced that we are like branches connected to a vine. "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink of His blood you shall not have life." John ? If you do or don’t believe that Communion is literally Christ’s body is not what I’m saying here. I am saying we need to partake of Jesus in order to survive. We need a close connection with Him. We are absolutely dependant upon Him for everything. "Apart from Me you can do nothing." John 15

Jesus does nourish us, care for us, protect us, watch over us like a mother does a beloved child. That’s why we can totally, absolutely trust and depend on Him. Again I will say that I am not in least bit ashamed to think of my Christ as both my mother and my father since I lost my mom because she committed suicide when i was a baby. And yes, I do believe that Jesus is indeed what Paul the Apostle referred to Him as "The Man Christ Jesus."

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