A CORD NOT SEVERED

The emotional umbilical cord never gets cut. At birth, the literal umbilical cord is severed, and mother and baby are for the first time separated. Emotionally, that mother is still connected. One of the greatest hurts I have seen my wife as a mother experience is when one of our children is hurt. She feels that keenly. When they were young, it may have been their finding out they were not invited to another child’s birthday party. As teens, it may have been betrayal or abandonment by a boy/girlfriend. As adults, it may be just the struggles of existence—dashed dreams, financial troubles, sick children, etc. Whatever the cause, however old the child, whenever in life it happens, if the child hurts, the mother hurts. That is why I believe that one of the most selfish acts of a child is to do something calculatedly, knowingly, and intentionally that would hurt his mother. She has already hurt in so many ways for that child—including giving birth. Then, to be hurt by that child? What uncaring selfishness. Perhaps, the greatest hurt of all for a mother concerning her child, is for her, as a Christian mother to know that her child refuses to surrender his/her life to Jesus. The Christian mother fully believes that all who fail to take Christ as their Savior and Lord will perish, will spend eternity in a misery without God. This thought alone is such a great pain to that mother. This hurt of a mother is so very great because she has given life to that child. She carried that child in her body, attached to her body. She birthed that child. She nursed that child from her own body. Emotionally, the cord is still there. Can this hurt be unlike the hurt God must feel? Creator God has given each of us life. He hurts when we hurt. He also hurts because of us. Perhaps, if one is aware of the hurt his unsurrendered heart, his waywardness from God, causes his mother, he will also have a sense of the hurt he causes God. It doesn’t work only with hurt. It works for joy also. What joy a child can bring to a mother (and God) by choosing Christ. This effect is because of the cord not severed.

A CORD NOT SEVERED

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