Where Can I Find Comfort?

Happy Mother’s Day to all you moms out there. This coming weekend we will celebrate Mother’s Day.

When I was growing up in Alaska, one summer we spotted a robin’s nest, sitting low, near a trail we always walked. The nest was at eye level. We would pass it everyday. Everyday we would see the mother robin sit on those eggs, keeping them warm. Once in awhile, we would catch the eggs unattended while the mom probably went out to get something to eat. We looked in the nest and could see three pretty blue eggs, laying in her nest. One day, we got excited and could see the eggs were cracking open. We could see little beaks trying to break out of the egg. Later, we saw the tiny birds sitting in the nest. Mom seemed to always be gone now, having to go get food for her growing family. If you waved your hand over the nest, those three little beaks would open wide, hoping food would get dropped in.

The babies grew up and we saw the mother trying to gently push her babies out of the nest and onto their own lives. Even in bird world, mothers are comforting and nurturing.

Mother’s are comforting. Well, most mothers are. We’re designed to be that way. Women have this natural nurturing ability that men don’t have. I’m not ragging on men, just stating a fact. Men have other qualities they bring to children. But nurturing, that’s a mother’s job. It’s instinctual.

God likens Himself to a mother.

Isaiah 66:13 “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you, and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”

God knew what He was doing when He designed women. He knew that nurturing would be an extremely important aspect of a woman’s abilities. God knew, because God comforts us in the same way.

Imagine that. God comforts us like a mother comforts her children. Believer’s are God’s spiritual children, adopted into the family of God through our salvation. And like a responsible parent, God takes on the role of father and mother. And He reminds us that He comforts us just like a mother does to her children.

You probably have memories of your own mother comforting you, nurturing you. There are probably times you can remember, when your mother was there for you, giving you encouragement or tender loving care. As we grow into adults, God takes on the role of mother. Like those little birdies, we eventually leave the nest, but God steps into our mother’s place and comforts us as our mothers would.

So go to God, believer, and get the comfort you desperately need. Seek after God and He WILL comfort you, just like a mother who knows her children so well, will comfort them.