What does Mother’s Day mean? To most it would simply mean that it’s a single day out of the year in which we celebrate our mothers or mother-like figures in our lives. To me, it’s a day in which I hold my mother in even higher esteem because I am the only son and I’ve made her tenure as a mother much more stressful than she may have liked. They say boys are never dramatic, but much harder to keep alive than girls…and I tested the theory often!
In recent study, I began to think about the mother of Jesus; Mary. She was thrusted into a situation that would have, in modern day terms, “ruined her life.” Though she was not married and had not known a man, she was with child. The way she carried herself through that time is amazing to me. She didn’t reject the child. She didn’t complain about being a mother before being a wife. She didn’t run away. She ended up doing what all mothers (in my opinion) should do; find ways to better understand God’s will.
In Luke 1, we see that Gabriel tells Zechariah that John the Baptist is coming and Zechariah doubts the angel, and is punished. We see later that Mary is told that she will bear a son named Jesus. Now, Mary is understandably scared (Luke 1:29), but her reply to Gabriel was “How will this be, since I am a virgin?” (v. 34) Originally, her response was the same as Zechariah, but she asked the question to better understand God’s will. Mothers are constantly answering questions from their inquisitive children. Therefore, one of the mother’s jobs is to help children understand the will of God. To all the mothers, thank you for exhibiting a quality of an angel, that is, giving directions to Jesus.