GOD our Mother

“As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.” (Isaiah 66:13)
On this Mothers’ Day, I invite you to reflect upon one of the sweetest and tenderest pictures of
the character of God. That revelation is not made in the New Testament, but in the Old
Testament prophecy of Isaiah 66:13. Here, God is likened unto a comforting mother. Jews are
right to say that “God could not be everywhere, so He made mothers”. A loving mother is God’s
beautiful image in the humanity. A mother is a mother still, the holiest thing alive.
Mother love on earth, however, is but a pale reflection of the feeling within the heart of God, as
with unfailing tenderness He comforts the weary, wounded spirit of His child. God combines in
Himself all the virtues of a perfect character: Father and Mother. God is both. How different in
turning to God as our Mother! And mark, the prophet Isaiah is not thinking of a little child, but
of a grown man heart sore and broken, fleeing back for the comfort of his mother’s presence.
“As a man whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.” And here is God, the source of
our being, the ancient home to which all belong, offering Himself to us as the divine, eternal
Mother.

Happy Mothers’ Day