Episode Details

Honoring mothers is deeply connected to honoring God’s design, care, and provision for our lives. In 1 Timothy 2:15, Scripture highlights the sacred role of motherhood and reminds us that God values faith, love, holiness, and perseverance within it. In a culture that often minimizes motherhood or focuses only on parental imperfections, this devotional calls believers back to a biblical perspective of gratitude, forgiveness, and honor.

Highlights

• God commands us to honor our fathers and mothers as an act of obedience.
• Motherhood is a sacred calling established by God.
• Many mothers carry hidden struggles while doing their best to raise their children.
• Honoring mothers reflects our reverence and obedience toward God.
• Forgiveness may be necessary in strained mother-child relationships.
• Scripture emphasizes faith, love, holiness, and perseverance in motherhood.
• Choosing honor over resentment brings healing and glorifies God.

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Honoring God by Honoring Our Mothers

By Lynette Kittle

Bible Reading:

“But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.” - 1Timothy 2:15

It seems like these days many women are resisting the call to motherhood and forgoing having children. At the same time, bitterness towards mothers is also on the rise, with too many adult children resenting their mothers’ noble yet imperfect attempts at mothering, looking at their flaws and weaknesses more than their strengths and sacrifices.

But even if the world turns its back on mothers and motherhood, believers in Jesus Christ are called to embrace motherhood and honor their mothers, respecting God’s design and plan for motherhood, and the place of honor He has given them on earth. 

God cares about how we treat, speak to, and speak about our mothers and mothers-in-law. It matters to Him because, as His family, it reflects on Him how we treat and speak about them.

As the Apostle Paul explained in Ephesians 6:2-3, “‘Honor your father and mother’—which is the first commandment with a promise—so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.”

So grave was it under Old Testament law to dishonor one’s mother and father that it brought deathly punishment. “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death” (Exodus 21:17