The whole goal of mothering bravely is so that God gets the glory when we walk in victory! It’s not so that we can go on with our self-serving purposes but so that we will know Him and be known by Him and so that we will make Him known. Our victory is for His glory. And He desperately wants both our victory and His glory!
Don’t you desperately want victory in your mothering? Don’t you want to look your eyes-cried-out daughter in the face and speak life to her battered heart because life is in you and flows out of you? Don’t you want to remember in the hardest moments that it is all worth it and you are shaping future warrior men and women who will do wild things for the Kingdom of God? Don’t you want to feel the waves of defeat wash over you only to rise up, look your enemy in the face and remind Him that you will not stay down but that you will rise every. single. time because THE SAME POWER that raised Christ from the dead lives in you?
Being a brave mom does not mean that you have it all figured out but it means that you are totally and completely dependent on the One that does have it all figured out. It’s like free falling without a parachute except that you do have a God who created you, sees you, is with you in this and he will not let you fail.
I’ve been a mom long enough to know that I’ve searched high and low for the easy way out. I just want to know the one idea that is going to cause it all make perfect sense. But, in all of my time being a mom, I have discovered that there really is no easy way. We can either spend every last breath searching for the easy answer OR we can put our energy and effort into gearing up for the battle that it is.
The Truth? –> You’re going to have to do some work.
Being a mom is tough period. BUT becoming a brave mom is is going to take some extra work. It means not just passively being tossed back and forth on the sea of life but stepping out in faith and walking on water. It means entering a battle where you fight for your children and fight for yourself to grow, expand your territory and to do and become all that God has called you too.
It is a fight for life and breath and joy and strength and peace and hope and self-control. It is a fight to achieve what you were put on this earth to achieve. It is a fight to sow intentional seeds into children and not give into the weariness that threatens to overwhelm and overtake you.
It’s a fight because you are in a battle. It’s life or death. It’s all out war in the enemy’s camp to keep you from becoming all you were created to be so that you will not have a chance to call out and equip your children to become everything they are supposed to become. And I’m sorry but he doesn’t go easy on you because you are a tired momma or on your kids because they are too little to understand. No, he has his darts aimed and ready to strike when you are your weakest.
BUT we have weapons! We have wisdom to outwit. We have power and truth on our side and we have a God who calls us to REST in Him. And the greatest news of all? We have the victory already! We just need to learn to walk in it.
This is where we are – we are moms, who desire to pick up our armor, become skilled with our weapons, know the God who is on our side and Who fights for us. We are Brave Moms!
In the next post I’ll share with you what I believe is the most important step in becoming a brave mom. It’s the step that orders all of the other steps.
Love this. What beautiful encouragement to love deeply and trust the Lord completely for the outcome!
Hi Heather, Thank you! Aren’t the answers so east and yet so challenging at the same time? Missing seeing you this week. ;) Blessings, Kristin