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          Let me begin by wishing any mother reading this a blessed Mother’s Day!  In spite of the successful work of feminism over the past half century to diminish the high view of motherhood God instilled in humanity from creation, an aspiring great woman of God in the image of Jesus Christ especially that has fully devoted herself to His assignment is still blessed by Him (Luke 7:11-17).¹  Indeed, a mother’s love historically self-denying, patient, kind, sacrificial and protective to name a few excellent qualities is patterned after God’s own.  Historical motherhood is remarkable given the intrusion of sin by Satan’s deceit, God’s judgment, life and death in a fallen world (Genesis 3-4).

          In God’s image and by His design, a mother’s natural love for her children provides and cares for, manages, nurtures and protects them.  It is typically a mother’s protective love that can cause her to stand up for and defend her children against harm at the risk of her own life though, this facet of love is plainly not active when she decides to abort her unborn or otherwise murder her child outside of the womb--instances of which fill these latter times.  Jochebed, the mother of Moses in the Bible, is an outstanding example of a mother’s protective love as is a harlot in Solomon’s dilemma of wisdom.  Both sought to protect the lives of their children (Exodus 1:22-2:10; 1 Kings 3:16-28).

          No doubt, it is protective love that would cause a mother who does not truly know God or His nature and character presented in the whole Bible to react against the truth of His coming wrath upon her progeny as I was directed by Him to warn about in a recent post.²  While a mother’s protective love is commendable and appropriate in the right situations as we saw in the earlier biblical examples, to be willing to lash out against sound doctrine to the point of corrupting God’s Word to redefine Him and revise the truth is a great evil that without repentance, He will not leave unpunished.  For in the falsehood, such a mother is seeking to create a made to order god of her own liking!

          As I have encountered this diabolical falsehood inspired of demons and cherry picked from God’s Word, it insists that since God is love, He cannot possibly bring wrath upon any human being, but particularly children.  Now, this statement sounds good at first glance because there is the New Testament passage that declares truthfully, “God is love,” (1 John 4:8, NKJV).  In context, the apostle John is asserting the source and standard of love in the eternal nature of God that ought to exist in and among born again Christians because He lives in us by the Holy Spirit.  We know Him so intimately and completely in love, “the day of judgment” holds no fear for us (1 John 4:4-19, NKJV).

          The foregoing exclusively involves born again Christians who have been delivered from God’s coming wrath through repentance and faith in the Gospel of His Son, Jesus Christ!  His sacrifice to save us from our sins and wrath is a clear display of God’s love as John reminds us in the passage cited.  But God in nature has other attributes besides love.  Among His eternal attributes are also holiness, righteousness and justice from which flows His condemnation of and wrath toward mankind as sinners.³  His love delays carrying out the fullness of His wrath to give time to repent as in the days of Noah, Sodom and Judah (Genesis 6:5-22, 7:11-24, 14:1-17, 18:16-19:29; 2 Chronicles 36:15-21).

          In the latter instance of His wrath, children are specifically mentioned among those that would perish as the Lord Jesus also warns the women weeping for Him on the way to the cross.  This happens as God comes against the sin of their parents (Ezekiel 8-9; Luke 23:26-31).⁴  No mother could possibly love her children more than God does mankind or His Son yet, He gave Him up to His wrath and death on the cross for us all (Isaiah 49:5-6, 14-16; Jeremiah 31:1-3; Matthew 3:16-17, 27:45-50; Romans 5:6-11)!  In His image (fallen as it is), mothers that love their children have had to discipline them for cause after any number of warnings.  Surely, you understand God made His own Son to suffer His wrath so we would not have to and has graciously given the world time to repent!

          God’s offer of pardon and a free pass from His wrath to mankind through repentance and faith in the Gospel of His Son is now, reaching its expiration date.  Whether it is my progeny or yours (God does not show favoritism) all need to take full advantage of His grace.  Otherwise, “the wrath of God abides on” them and no mother’s protective love can prevent this by force of will or corrupting Scripture to propagate a falsehood to somehow make Him over and take it away (John 3:36, NKJV).  Just as there can be no made to order salvation, neither is there a made to order God!⁵  He is who the Bible as it is written fully says He is!⁶  For this reason, every professed Christian must study His whole Word for themselves to know what it actually says in totality to avoid being deceived.⁷

1 The blessedness of motherhood as the purposeful and exclusive assignment to females by God is taught from His Word by me in my book, The Strong Man Of God: Back
   To  Basics  and  its  companion  Great Woman Of God Women’s Group Study.  Both are available in the Strong Man Store, at your favorite internet bookseller or brick and
   mortar bookstore.

2 Read the March 27, 2022 post, No Baby Boomer Free Lunch, under the categories Biblical Worldview and Call To Repent.

3 See the March 28, 2021 post, The Righteous Wrath Of God, under the categories Bible Prophecy and The Cause.

4 God  is not out to get children or anyone else for that matter!  However, taking Him seriously as they ought in His Word, parents are warned in the context of His prohibition
   of the practice of idolatry deeply offensive to Him: ‘“I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth gen-
   erations  of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments,’” (Exodus 20:3-6; Deuteronomy 5:7-10, NKJV).  Sin-
   ning  parents  are  the  ones  that  in  reality  show  a  lack  of  love and regard for their own progeny by thumbing their noses at God’s Word and warnings about the conse-
   quences  of  disobedience  (Ezekiel 18:30-32)!   If  you  do not wish for your progeny to endure God’s coming wrath, be and live saved yourself.  Then, proclaim the Gospel
   and witness Christ to them in the prayerful hope of their repentance, faith and salvation to escape!

5 See the May 1, 2022 post, Made To Order Salvation?, under the category, The Faith.

6 Read the May 31, 2020 post, Keeping It Real About God, under the category, Instruction.

7 Get sound help and encouragement to engage beneficially in the spiritual discipline of Bible Study by taking the Fruitful Bible Study Self-Paced Video Course on our Strong
   Man Virtual Institute YouTube Channel.  A Study Guide is available as a free download in the Strong Man Store to help follow along with the series of short videos.