Devotionals

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MOTHER MARY COMFORTS ME


From his earliest days his mother was there to comfort him. She saw that his needs were met. In sickness she sat up with him. Hours sitting up with a sick child she spent doing the things a mother does to try and comfort a child. In wellness she would put herself second and let the wants and needs of her child come first: Ballgames, concerts, and places she would probably not have been too had it not been for the devotion to her son. He went to Sunday school whether he needed it or not.


School was always a must as education was seen as very important. Hot meals were always ready when he returned home from school or play. When times were financially tight, his needs would take precedence over hers. She would offer advice, give discipline, and do whatever it took to raise her son in a Godly way. Through the years as her health begin to be not as good as it had been in her earlier years and he looked out for her needs. The example she set came from Mary, the mother of Jesus.

Mary didn’t understand all that the angel Gabriel was telling her as she asked, “How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?” (Luke 1:34). But, out of faith in God she accepted what he had to say: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word” (Luke 1:39). The first act Mary did in regards to her son was an act of faith.

With the birth of the savior, Mary’s mind turned to His immediate needs. They turned on her maternal instincts: “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn” (Luke 2:7). She had no means to make him comfortable and warm in a room in the inn, so she provided the best that she was able to do.

Mary recognized that her Son should be brought up according to God’s word: And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel before he was conceived in the womb (Luke 2:21); they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord (Luke 1:22).

She educated him. When he was a child of 12 he was found in the temple: they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers (Luke 1:46-47).


She followed him from the cradle to the grave. And, as Jesus hung on the cross about to leave this life his thoughts turned to her needs after he would be gone. Speaking to the Apostle John, Jesus said, “Behold thy mother!” and from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home (John 19:27).

From the Cradle to the grave, Mary served as an example of a Mother. Mary showed that there is more to being a mother than just going through some normal biological functions. Biology doesn’t make a mother, love does. It is no wonder that “henceforth all generations shall call [Mary] blessed” (Luke 1:48). May all mothers that follow Mary’s example be blessed.

6 January 2006
Bobby Cohoon
North Carolina, USA
http://littlesorrel.blogspot.com

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