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SIX Like a Mother Foundation Text— As a mother comforts her child, /so will I comfort you; / and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.
—Is 66:13
We all know howa mother comforts her children, and most of us have tasted the sweetness of this comforting. Notice then, the "as" and "so" in this declaration, and accept the Divine
Comforter and the heavenly comfort.
Shout for joy, O heavens; / rejoice, O earth; / burst into song, O mountains! / For the Lord comforts his people / and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.—Is 49:13 (Is 51:3, 12; 52:9)
God is called the "God of all comfort."
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
—2 Cor 1:3-4 The Holy Spirit is called the Comforter.
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
—Jn 14:26 (KJV)
62 / The Open Secret Christ, when he was leaving his disciples, provided for their comfort when he should be gone.
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever. ... I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.—Jn 14:16-18 (KJV)
But some will say, if God is like a mother, and comforts as mothers comfort, why is it that they are not comforted?
Have you never seen a little child sitting up stiff in the mother's lap, and refusing to be comforted, in spite of all her coaxing? And do we not often act in very much the same way?
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. —Mt 23:37
When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; / at night I stretched out untiring hands / and my soul refused to be comforted.
—Ps 77:2
Even a mother's love and tenderness cannot comfort a child that "refuses to be comforted"; and neither can God's. But no sorrow can be too great for his comfort to reach, if we will only take it.
Even though I walk / through the valley of the shadow of death, / I will fear no evil, / for you are with me; / your rod and your staff,
/ they comfort me.—Ps 23:4
Then maidens will dance and be glad, / young men and old as well. / I will turn their mourning into gladness; / I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.—Jer 31:13
If we will only listen believingly to his loving words:
"Daughter be of good comfort"; we shall surely be comforted.
There are many other ways in which God is like a mother, and a comparison of these points will, I trust, open our eyes to see some truths concerning him, which have been hitherto hidden from our gaze.
Like a Mother / 63 1. The mother runs when the child cries, and listens to the story of its sorrows and its needs, and relieves them.
And just so God.
Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.—Is 58:9
The "here am I" of the mother never fails to respond to the child's cry of "Mother, mother, where are you?" And neither does God's (Ps 3:4-5).
To the Lord I cry aloud, / and he answers me from his holy hill. / I lie down and sleep; / I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.—Ps 3:4-5 How alert is the ear of the mother to the feeblest cry of her baby in the night. Let her be sleeping ever so soundly, and she will still hear the tiny cry. And how comforted and quieted the little one is when it realizes its mother's presence and can go to sleep in her care.
When I called, you answered me; / you made me bold and stouthearted.—Ps 138:3 (Ps 77:1) We are sometimes tempted to think that the Lord does not hear our prayers. But let the mother teach us. Could she possibly let the cry of her child go unheeded? And is the earthly mother more tender of her children, than the heavenly Father is of his?
He provides food for the cattle / and for the young ravens when they call. (Ps 147:9) Since he hears the cry of the ravens, shall he not hear ours?
Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble, / and he delivered them from their distress.—Ps 107:6, 13, 19, 28
We are tempted to think that trouble shuts God's ears. In times of prosperity we rejoice to believe he hears us, but when
64 / The Open Secret the dark days come, we moan and complain because our prayers do not reach him. Which cry catches the mother's ear the soonest, the cry of joy or the cry of sorrow? There can be but one answer to this. Every mother knows that the happy noises of her children in the nursery pass by often unnoticed, but the slightest cry of pain or trouble reaches her ear at once.
And is a mother more alert to the suffering of her children than God?
Before they call I will answer; / while they are still speaking I will hear.—Is 65:24
Perhaps the child hardly knows why it cries, and cannot tell in any clear way what is the matter with it. But the mother does not refuse, because of this, to listen to its cry. She only seeks instead, all the more, to discover the cause of the discomfort for herself, and to remedy it. And surely, so must God.
Does he who implanted the ear not hear? / Does he who formed the eye not see?—Ps 94:9
Surely the arm of the Lord is not too short to save, / nor his ear too dull to hear.—Is 59:1
Let us never grieve him again by doubting that he hears us, however faint and feeble may be our cry. And let us be encouraged to ask as children do, for everything we need, sure that he will always hear, and will always answer (as some one has said), either in kind or in kindness.
Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.—Jn 16:24
2. The mother carries the child in her arms and folds it to her bosom.
He tends his flock like a shepherd: / He gathers the lambs in his arms / and carries them close to his heart; / he gently leads those that have young.—Is 40:11
Like a Mother / 65 Even to your old age and gray hairs / I am he, I am he who will sustain you / I have made you and I will carry you; / I will sustain you and I will rescue you.—Is 46:4
Do we not act sometimes as though we thought we were carrying the Lord, rather than that he was carrying us? And do we not go bowed down under this fancied burden, when we ought to be resting peacefully in his arms? A baby, safe in its mother's arms, will sometimes make little clutches of fright, as though its safety depended upon the strength of its tiny grasp of the mother's neck. But the mother knows how useless these are, and that it is her grasp, and not the baby's, that secures its safety. And surely this is true of us in the arms of God.
The eternal God is your refuge, / and underneath are the everlasting arms. / He will drive out your enemy before you, / saying, "Destroy him!"—Dt 33:27
The baby carried in the arms of its mother knows no fear, even though the path may lie through a howling wilderness or through raging enemies. The mother's arms are its impregnable fortress. And the "everlasting arms" of God can be no less.
Like an eagle that stirs up its nest / and hovers over its young, / that spreads its wings to catch them / and carries them on its pinions.—Dt 32:11-12 (Is 63:9) Even the eagle knows this secret of mother love. When the little eagles are old enough to learn to fly, she stirs up the nest and thrusts them out, that they may be driven to find the use of their wings. But she floats in the air under them, and watches them with eyes of love, and when she sees any little eaglet showing signs of weariness, she flies beneath it and spreads out her great strong mother wings to bear it up until it is rested and ready to fly again. And so the Lord.
All races both of men and animals instinctively recognize the mother's right and duty to bear the burden of the child she
66 / The Open Secret has brought into the world. And Moses appealed to this universal instinct when he complained to the Lord concerning the children of Israel.
Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their forefathers?—Nm 11:12
And in rehearsing the wilderness wandering in "the plain over against the Red Sea," he again used the same figure to describe how the Lord had dealt with them.
...and in the desert. There you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.—Dt 1:31
We cannot make any mistake then, in believing that the Lord carries us in his arms and folds us to his bosom with far more tenderness and watchful care than any mother ever could.
3. The mother wipes away the tears of her little one.
For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; / he will lead them to springs of living water. / And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.—Rv 7:17
Where do the little ones run for comfort, but to their mother? They know that no other hand can wipe away their tears as hers can. And have we not often seen children, when they were hurt, holding in the cry until mother came, because they have felt instinctively that nobody but "mother" could sympathize or console?
Shall we not then let our God wipe away the tears from our eyes, and give us "joy for mourning," just as we used to let our mothers do, when we were in their loving care?
For you, O Lord, have delivered my soul from death, / my eyes from tears, / my feet from stumbling.—Ps 116:8
Like a Mother / 67 He will swallow up death forever. / The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears / from all faces; / he will remove the disgrace of his people / from all the earth. / The Lord has spoken.
—Is 25:8 (Is 30:19; 6:8-9) When our Lord was on earth he was very tender of the tears of his people.
When the Lord saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, "Don't cry."—Lk 7:13
Meanwhile, all the people were wailing and mourning for her.
"Stop wailing," Jesus said. "She is not dead but asleep." —Lk 8:52
Just as the mother says, "Darling, do not cry," so he says to us, "Weep not." Our tears give him grief.
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.—Jn 11:33
Perhaps we do not remember this enough, and indulge ourselves sometimes in weeping, when our Lord would gladly wipe away our tears. Let us consider this, and see if for his sake, as for our mother's sake, we cannot dry our eyes, and try to bear cheerfully the sorrows he permits to come upon us. Have we never known what it was to restrain our sorrow that we might not grieve a loved one? And shall we not sometimes do this for our Lord?
But be glad and rejoice forever / in what I will create, / for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight / and its people a joy. / I will rejoice over Jerusalem / and take delight in my people; / the sound of weeping and of crying / will be heard in it no more.
—Is 65:18-19 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.—Rv 21:4
68 / The Open Secret 4. The mother watches over her children in sickness, and does all she can to comfort and to heal.
The Lord will sustain him on his sickbed / and restore him from his bed of illness. —Ps 41:3 (1 Kgs 8:37-39)
Concerning our Lord it was declared that he had borne not our sins only, but our sicknesses as well.
When evening came, many who were demon possessed were brought to him, and he drove out the spirits with a word and healed all the sick. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: / "He took up our infirmities / and carried our diseases." —Mt 8:16-17 The story of his life on earth was one continual record of his tenderness with sickness, and his power and willingness to heal.
As soon as they got out of the boat, people recognized Jesus.
They ran throughout that whole region and carried the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. And everywhere he went— into villages, towns or countryside—they placed the sick in the marketplaces. They begged him to let them touch even the edge of his cloak, and all who touched him were healed.
—Mk 6:54-56 (Mt 4:23) How literally this bearing of our sicknesses is to be taken is a subject which we cannot consider here. There is a great difference of opinion on the matter. But of this Iam sure, that all who trust him will find that the tenderest mother's love and care in sickness 1s only a faint picture of the love and care that he will bestow.
5. The mother bears with the naughty child as no one else can, and finds excuses for it, and loves it freely through all.
While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew's house, many tax collectors and "sinners" came and ate with him and his disciples.
When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and 'sinners? "
Like a Mother / 69 On hearing this, Jesus said, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."—Mt 9:10-13 Other people love us when we are good, our mothers love us when we are not. And God is like our mothers.
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.x—Rom 5:8
Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance:
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst.—1 Tm 1:15
Our mothers do not love our sins, but they love us, even when we are sinners; and they love us enough to try to save us from our sins. And this is like God.
There's a wideness in God's mercy, Like the wideness of the sea; There's a kindness in his justice That is more than liberty.
There's no place where earthly sorrows Are more felt than up in heaven; There's no place where earthly failings Have such kindly judgment given.
Only mothers can be just to their children, for they alone know their temptations. And only God can be just toward us, for "He alone knows our frame, and remembers that we are dust."
6. The mother will lay down her life for her child. Our Lord laid down his life for us.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The
70 / The Open Secret man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep.—Jn 10:11-15 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
—1 Jn 3:16
All nature teaches us this law of the self-sacrifice of motherhood. Even the wild tiger-mother yields to its power. A late writer has said concerning this: "It is a tiger's impulse to resent an injury. Pluck her by the hair, smite her on the flank, she will leap upon and rend you. But to resent an injury is not her strongest impulse. Watch those impotent kitten creatures playing with her. They are so weak, a careless movement of her giant paw would destroy them; but she makes no careless movement. They have caused her a hundredfold the pain your blow produced; yet she does not render evil for evil. These puny mites of helpless impotence she strokes, with love's light in her eyes; she licks the shapeless forms of her tormentors, and, as they plunge at her, each groan of her anguish is transformed by love into a whinney of delight. She moves her massive head in a way which shows that he, who bade you turn the other cheek, created her. When strong enough to rise, the terrible creature goes forth to sacrifice herself for her own. She will starve that they may thrive. She is terrible for her little ones, as Christ was terrible for his. He who made her, taught her the secret of motherhood."
The little Bantam hen has learned the same secret, and will spread her tiny wings and rush to her death, if her little chicks are in danger.
In all ranges of being, the beautiful law of motherhood leads to the grandeur of an utter self-sacrifice. And he who conceived and created motherhood, cannot himself do less than the mothers he has made.
Like a Mother / 71 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
—2 Cor 5:14.15 (Rom 5:6; 1 Thes 5:9-10) "When the polar bear lays down her life for the cub that cannot live without her; when the leopard gives herself to death in defence of her impotent whelp; the Artic Circle and the Libyan zone unite in protestation that the spirit of Nature is the spirit of Christ."
7. The mother holds the hand of her child to lead it in the right path, and lifts it over the rough places, that it may not stumble.
For he will command his angels concerning you / to guard you in all your ways; / they will lift you up in their hands, / so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.—Ps 91:11-12
To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy.
—Jude 24 (1 Sm 2:9; Prv 2:26) It is the mother who holds the child, not the child the mother. It is the mother who watches the path, and lifts the baby feet over the stones and snares that obstruct the way. The responsibility is all hers. The child has only to abandon itselfto her leading, and trust her fully. And our God knows the way we take, and will direct all our steps, if we but commit ourselves to his care.
He will not let your foot slip— / he who watches over you will not slumber;—Ps 121:3
My eyes are ever on the Lord, / for only he will release my feet from the snare.—Ps 25:15
He lifted me out of the slimy pit, / out of the mud and mire; / he set my feet ona rock /and gave me a firm place to stand.—Ps 40:2
You give me your shield of victory, / and your right hand sustains
72 / The Open Secret me; / you stoop down to make me great. / You broaden the path beneath me, / so that my ankles do not turn.
—Ps 18:35-36 (Ps 17:5) No matter how much the child may resist the mother's leading, or wander from her loving clasp, still she is always ready again to take hold of its hand and lead it.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, / ifI settle on the far side of the sea, / even there your hand will guide me, / your right hand will hold me fast.—Ps 139:9-10 (Is 41:13) 8. The mother is always ready to feed her hungry child, and would starve herself before she would suffer the child to starve.
The eyes of all look to you, / and you give them their food at the proper time. / You open your hand / and satisfy the desires of every living thing.—Ps 145:15-16 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, / for they will be filled.—Mr 5:6 (Ps 107:9) It is not always the food the child asks for, that the wise mother gives. Sometimes such food would be fatal to its health. But it is always the food that is best for it, up to the mother's light and ability to procure. And we may be perfectly sure that our God always gives us that which is best, whether it is what we ask for or not. Therefore we must be satisfied.
My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; / with singing lips my mouth will praise you.—Ps 63:5
Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy
Spirit to those who ask him! —Lk 11:11-13 What our Father gives may Jook to us like a "snake" or a "scorpion," but, since he gives it, we may be sure it cannot be anything but just the best thing for us. For if parents "know
Like a Mother / 73 how" to give good gifts how "much more" must he? (Mt 6:25-26, 33) The child does not have to supply or prepare its own food; this is the mother's business. And all the child has to do is to eat and live, without care and without cost (Mt 6:25-26, 33; Is
55:1-2).
9. The mother takes pleasure in her child, and loves to dress it beautifully and to keep it clean.
I delight greatly in the Lord; / my soul rejoices in my God. / For he has clothed me with garments of salvation / and arrayed me ina robe of righteousness, / as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, / and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
—Is 61:10 (Ps 149:4) What joy in the world is equal to the joy of a mother in her child! And what employment is sweeter to her than to prepare dainty garments for its adorning.
And yet it is hard for the children themselves to believe this.
They do not know the mother's heart, and they cannot enter into her joy in them.
And it is the same with us toward our God. We cannot believe that he can take pleasure in such poor miserable creatures as we are. We know we delight in him, but it seems impossible that he should delight in us. And yet, in spite of all the child's ignorance of it, the mother does rejoice in her little ones; and in spite of our doubts and fears God does rejoice in us.
The Lord delights in those who fear him, / who put their hope in his unfailing love.—Ps 147:11
Can not we therefore, who understand something of the mother's heart towards her children, understand also something of the heart of God towards us?
I gave you my solemn oath and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Sovereign Lord, and you became mine.
74 / The Open Secret I bathed you with water and washed the blood from you and put ointments on you. I clothed you with an embroidered dress and put leather sandals on you. I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with costly garments. I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms anda necklace around your neck, and I put a ring on your nose, earrings on your ears and a beautiful crown on your head. So you were adorned with gold and silver; your clothes were of fine linen and costly fabric and embroidered cloth.
Your food was fine flour, honey and olive oil. You became very beautiful and rose to be a queen. And your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, because the splendor I had given you made your beauty perfect, declares the Sovereign
Lord.—Ez 16:8-14 (Ps 45:13-14) The child does not make its own clothes, but leaves them all for the mother.
And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even
Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? —Mrt 6:28-30
It would grieve the mother to see her little one anxious and troubled about its clothing; and it grieves our God to see us.
Moreover, all our efforts to clothe ourselves are grievous failures, just as the child's would be.
What are you doing, O devastated one? / Why dress yourself in scarlet / and put on jewels of gold? / Why shade your eyes with paint? / You adorn yourself in vain. / Your lovers despise you; / they seek your life.—Jer 4:30
Only the Lord can clothe us; and he only can make us clean.
"Come now, let us reason together,"/ says the Lord. / "Though your sins are like scarlet, / they shall be as white as snow; / though they are red as crimson, / they shall be like wool."
—Is 1:18 (1 Jn 1:7, 9)
Like a Mother / 75 10. The mother feels the hurts and sufferings of her child as though they were her own.
In all their distress he too was distressed, / and the angel of his presence saved them. / In his love and mercy he redeemed them; / he lifted them up and carried them / all the days of old.—Is 63:9
Even though the affliction may be the result of sin, still the mother grieves over it and longs to help it. Strangers may say
"It serves you right," but no good mother ever could.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin.—Heb 4:15
Whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye. —Zech 2:8
11. The mother cannot forget or forsake her child. And yet even this may be possible with a human mother, but with God never!
But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, / the Lord has forgotten me." / "Can a mother forget the baby at her breast / and have no compassion on the child she has borne? / Though she may forget, /I will not forget you! / See, Ihave engraved you on the palms of my hands; / your walls are ever before me.
—Is 49:14-16 Why do you say, O Jacob, / and complain, O Israel / "My way is hidden from the Lord; / my cause is disregarded by my God?" /
Do you not know? / Have you not heard? / The Lord is the everlasting God, / the Creator of the ends of the earth. / He will not grow tired or weary, / and his understanding no one can fathom. / He gives strength to the weary / and increases the power of the weak.—Is 40:27-29 Christians sometimes talk as though God had forsaken them; but this is impossible, for he has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." (Heb 13:5-6; Dt 31:6-8)
The child in delirium thinks its mother has forsaken it,
76 / The Open Secret although all the time she is close beside it. And we, in the delirium of our doubts and fears, think as falsely, that God has forsaken us.
For the sake of his great name the Lord will not reject his people, because the Lord was pleased to make you his own.
—1 Sm 12:22 (1 Kgs 6:13; Josh 1:5) 12. The mother stays beside her child when it is in danger, even though all others may abandon it.
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.—Jn 10:11-13 A hired nurse, no matter how much she is paid, may flee ina moment of danger, and leave her charge to its fate. But danger only makes the mother keep closer to her helpless little one.
The mother-hen, who generally flies at the first approach of danger, will stand as firm and dauntless as a lion, if she has her little chickens to guard.
Have we ever dared to think of our Lord as though he were a "hired hand" who fled when danger approached?
Have we not even sometimes been more ready to trust earthly hirelings, than to trust him?
The Lord isa refuge for the oppressed, / a stronghold in times of trouble.—Ps 9:9
For in the day of trouble / he will keep me safe in his dwelling; / he will hide me in the shelter of his tabernacle / and set me high upon a rock.—Ps 27:5
13. If the child is lost, the mother leaves all else to seek it, and never gives up "till she finds it."
Like a Mother / 77 Then Jesus told them this parable: "Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me'; I have found my lost sheep.' I tell you that in the same way there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.—Lk 15:3-10 (Mt 18:11-14; 34:11-12)
What, then, is the summing up of the whole matter? Simply this: If God is only as good as the mothers he has made, where can there be any room left for a thought of care or of fear? And if he is as much truer to the ideal of motherhood than an earthly mother can be, as his infiniteness is above hers, then what oceans and continents of bliss are ours for the taking!
Shall we not take it?
Learn of this mother to be no more beguiled, For, mindful of the mother heart which I have given;
She in my goodness hath abiding faith; And whatso'er of Me another saith, Although the words may seem to come from heaven;
She ponders well, and tries it by the test, Of that which in her own heart she finds best.
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