FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
SPECIAL MOTHER’S DAY MESSAGE TO ALL MOTHERS (PARENTS), BIOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL
“What the parents are, that to a great extent, the children will be. The physical conditions of the parents, their dispositions and appetites, their mental and moral tendencies, are, to a greater or less degree, reproduced in their children.
“The nobler the aim, the higher the mental and spiritual endowments, and the better developed to physical powers of the parents, the better will be the life equipment they give to their children. In cultivating that which is best in themselves, parents are exerting an influence to mold society and uplift future generations.
“Fathers and mothers need to understand their responsibility. The world is full of snares [especially in these last days of earth’s probation] for the feet of the young. Multitudes are attracted by a live of selfish and sensual pleasure. They cannot DISCERN the hidden dangers of the fearful ENDING of the path that seem to the way of happiness……
THE MOTHER’S UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY.
“There is a God above, and the light and glory from His throne rests upon the FAITHFUL MOTHER as she tries to educate her children to resist the influence of evil. NO OTHER WORK CAN EQUAL HERS IN IMPORTANCE. She has not, like the artist, to paint a form of beauty on canvas, nor, like the sculptor, to chisel it from marble. She has not, like the author, to embody a noble thought in words of power, nor, like the musician, to express a beautiful sentiment in melody. It is hers, with the help of God, to develop in a human being the LIKENESS OF THE DIVINE.
“The mother who appreciates this will regard her opportunities as PRICELESS. Earnestly will she seek, in HER OWN CHARACTER, and by her methods of training, to present before her children, the HIGHER IDEAL.
Earnestly, patiently, courageously, she will endeavor to IMPROVE her own abilities, that she may use aright the highest powers of the MIND in the training of her children.
Earnestly will she inquire at every step, ‘What hath God spoken?’ Diligently SHE WILL STUDY HIS WORD. She will keep her eyes fixed upon Christ, that HER OWN DAILY EXPERIENCE, in the LOWLY ROUND of care and duty, may be a TRUE REFLECTION of that One True Life!” – E. G. White, The Ministry of Healing, pp. 371, 378.
Remember that the original Greek word for grace, charis, means “the divine INFLUENCE in the heart and its manifestation or reflection in the life.”
Bless all mothers, NMF