A MATTER OF FAITH: MOTHER'S DAY

I am torn today because I do not encourage my family to do anything for me on this day, Mother’s Day. All over the country and the world people honor mother’s on a particular day. What if Mother’s Day is the same days as your mother’s birthday? Does she get twice as many gifts? I would suggest, if you are going to honor your mother on a particular day every year, don’t let Hallmark determine when the day is. My day is my birthday.

MATTHEW 15:2-6
“Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”

He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— then he need not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

Mother’s Day is a tradition created by man. Many people may not actively ‘curse’ their mother, though some do, but they selectively choose when they will bless them. A parent’s birthday, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and maybe Christmas children do something special for their parents.

Nailed to the cross in agonizing pain Jesus honored his mother.

JOHN 19:25-26 THE COMPLETE JEWISH BIBLE
Nearby Yeshua’s execution stake stood his mother, his mother’s sister Miryam the wife of K’lofah, and Miryam from Magdala. When Yeshua saw his mother and the talmid whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Mother, this is your son.”

Jesus honored His mother at an inconvenient time. I recall when I worked in the nursing home, women who did not receive visits any other day would have a host of people visit on Mother’s Day. How sad, I think, to have only that one day in which your children actually give you any attention.

EXODUS 20:12 King James Version
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 

Honoring your parents is not a suggestion from God, it is a commandment, for get about the promise attached. Setting one day aside in the year to acknowledge a parent does not qualify a person for a long life.

PROVERBS 30:11 New International Version
“There are those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers;

Honoring your parents is a daily activity. As an adult child it means taking the time to call from time to time in the midst of your busy day, visit, particularly if they are elderly, as often as possible and teaching your children to appreciate their grandparents.

Unfortunately, there is a growing perversion of motherhood that pushes the ideology that men can be mothers and women can be fathers. This secular society has reached a point in which fatherhood is cursed and mothers are not blessed (Proverbs 30:11) and showing respect to fathers and mothers is becoming optional (Exodus 30:12). What was a secular holiday to begin with is becoming a satanic ritual. (SEE VIDEO BELOW)

What would happen if Mother’s Day was on a Tuesday?????

MATTHEW 15:3-6 THE COMPLETE JEWISH BIBLE
He answered, “Indeed, why do you break the command of God by your tradition? For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’ But you say, ‘If anyone says to his father or mother, “I have promised to give to God what I might have used to help you,” then he is rid of his duty to honor his father or mother.’ Thus by your tradition you make null and void the word of God!

My children and a few other’s will wish Happy Mother’s Day and I will graciously say “Thank you”; I will respond in kind to mothers who say Happy Mother’s Day to me. I do not expect gifts, dinner, flowers or any such thing from my family  because they bless me through out the year. Why should any mother have to wait until May to get flowers, be taken out to dinner and treated like a queen? Honor your mother and father often without consideration to man made traditions.   
                                                                                                 Written by Marsha L F Randolph

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