Motherly Love vs Godly love

Introduction

I’ve been gone for a while

I just obtained with a fancy paper that says I’m smart, otherwise known as a bachelor's degree

I’ve been very busy with school work

I also have an important announcement that will wait for the end of the video

So we just had mother’s day

It happened to be the same weekend as graduation

It caused a very weird inversion of the typical power dynamic on mother’s day weekend

Also I had a lot more mothers than usual to attend to, not boding well for my wallet

with Family still being in town from graduation and all

It was an highly unusual and extremely busy weekend

I also sprained my ankle the week before, I was supposed to be taking it easy still. I’m still paying for last weekend

Now you’re probably thinking about how in the world this connects to the title of this video

This is my 1 week late mother’s day video

As the title of this video would suggest, I want to look at the dynamic between God’s love and a mother’s love

Body

I kinda have two major categories here

the similarities

the differences

I am gonna go through one then the other

So first, the similarities

The Similarities

I got three main similarities for you guys

Both loves are unconditional by nature

There is no objective reason for either to love us

A child is a drag on the mother’s time, money, social life, marriage, and many other things

We have sinned against God, and even still remain an adulterous wife

Hosea 1:2 presents this analogy of Israel being an adulterous wife because despite Israel being in covenant with God they still sin and commit idolatry

We are in covenant with God as Christians, even considered apart of the true Israel, so it is no different for us when we fall short and sin, which usually involves some level of idolatry.

Both loves are enduring

A mother will love her child as long as she lives

This is a typically accepted truth

The worst thing for a mother to have to do is bury her child

God’s love is even more enduring, since He is eternal, his love is the same

In Jeremiah 31:3 God says that He has loved Israel with an everlasting love, and it is because of this love He has continued his faithfulness to them

Well we have been grafted into Israel have we not

Both loves are near impossible to break

Mothers love fiercely

It would take a lot for a mother to stop loving her child

God loves us beyond comprehension

Paul says in Romans 5:8 that God still loved us while we were sinners`

Despite being the adulterous wife seen in Hosea, God loved us anyways

He didn’t just love us, but while we were being adulterous, God bought us back

He bailed us out of prison even though we been cheating on him with other gods

Paul lists in Romans 8:38-39 all the things that cannot separate us from the love of God

Here is the full list

death, life, angels, rulers, things present, things to come, powers, height, depth, anything else in all creation

Notice this list includes everything except God himself

and He ain’t gonna give you up anytime soon

Before we continue on to talk about differences I would also like to make a distinction as well

Our culture’s view of a mother’s love isn’t full reality, it’s a stereotype

It’s seen as something perfect and infallible, despite it being of beings so inherently imperfect and fallible

So let’s take a look at some of the ways a mother’s love can fall short when compared to the love of God

The differences

A mother’s love isn’t always immediately established

A study done by Roseth et al. (2018) suggests that some new mothers question their motherly love after birth

there is some form of disillusionment with the reality of the mother - child relationship

This disillusionment may be caused by things like traumatic births

This study would suggest that a mother’s love isn’t as universal a truth as our culture accepts it to be

Yet in spite of this, God’s love is always established

Psalm 71, 22 are ones of lament. In both Psalms the psalmist suggests his trust in God, particularly suggesting a relationship with God that stems before their birth

Psalm 71:4, 22:9-10

Like we said earlier, God’s love is eternal as well (Jer 31:3)

The only person questioning God’s love is you, not God

A mother’s love is not infinite

All human love is limited because we are limited beings

We only have so much love to give

But God by nature is infinite, and by nature He is love (1 Jn 4:8)

Our culture suggests that a mother’s love is the greatest love anybody can experience

Yet the truth of the bible is that God’s love is greater than anybody could imagine

Look at the story of the bible

We see a great love of God for humanity, for Israel, and for the Church

This is most true in the gospel of Jesus Christ

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He sent his only begotten son

John 15:13 There is no greater love than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus then describes the 12 (whom He is talking to) as his friends

There is no greater love than that Jesus showed us

His death on that cross will be the greatest love humanity will ever know

Closing

The important announcement, I’m starting a second channel so to say

I’m gonna be posting the sermons I do over there and reserving this channel exclusively for stuff like this

That channel is gonna serve as a record of sermons I’ve preached

also going to be a great resume tool when I apply to ministry positions

Cause I’d love to do this full time, but food is a pretty important necessity of life

If you want help support this becoming a full time ministry, there are a few things you can do

share this video and others with people that you know, get them involved in this ministry so that it can grow even larger in it’s reach

Leave a like and comment, building a community is critical to success on this platform

also YouTube looks at that stuff and is more likely to recommend it to others

I do have a patreon

give like 1 dollar a month to help support me having food to eat

Link down in the description below

It’s good to be back up and running

I hate having to take breaks from the channel, I really love doing this

I really believe this is what God wants me to do

You all are dearly loved, by me, and so much more by our Lord. Have a wonderful day and I’ll see you next time.

References

Røseth, I., Bongaardt, R., Lyberg, A., Sommerseth, E., & Dahl, B. (2018). New mothers' struggles to love their child. An interpretative synthesis of qualitative studies. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 13(1), 1-10. http://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2018.1490621

This is a study done about mothers struggling to love their newborn child. This is often due to things like traumatic births