Our humanistic society seeks to make mothers feel inferior as they mother their children in their home. They are educated to think they could accomplish more by taking a job outside the home.
I have a question to ask. Is it an inferior thing to leave your home and motherhood, the highest career God has given to women, and give this divine commission to a wage-earner? Someone who will do their duty, hopefully diligently, but will never have the heart, compassion, and love you have for your children? No wage-earner truly feels for your child like you do. Or understands their deepest needs like you do. It’s only a job to them.
No, you are leaving the superior and most powerful career for a lesser one. One that will pass away. You are involved in an eternal mission. You are mothering eternal souls who will live forever!
Jesus shows us the difference in the parable He told about the shepherd and the sheep in John 10:1-18. Read it over again when you get a chance. Here’s a little excerpt from the New Living Translation (vs. 10-15): “The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep. A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock. The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep. I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep, and they know me . . . So I sacrifice my life for she sheep.”
What’s the difference? The wage earner does a job for money. The true shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. Shepherding is picture of mothering. Like a shepherd, the true mother does not leave her little flock. Instead, she sacrifices her life for her flock. Her children are her passion and her life. She does not try to get away from them. She does not try to save her own life, but lay down her life.
Blessings from Nancy Campbell