There’s a story in the bible that
reveals a mother. This particular mother was dealt an unfair blow in life. It
just so happens that she had given birth to two sons. Not just an ordinary
mother, but a mother who gave birth to the sons of a
king. The entire story is found in 2 Samuel 21st chapter. She was a
lady that having heard of her sons being required as atonement for the failures of
their father King Saul. Payment was required that silver or gold would not be sufficient. This story could be made about the father as king. However,
the story is focused on mother. Here is just a brief part of that story.
2 Sam 21:2 And the king called
the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the
children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of
Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the
children of Israel and Judah.)
3 Wherefore David said unto the
Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement,
that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?
4 And the Gibeonites said unto
him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us
shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I
do for you.
5 And they answered the king,
The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be
destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give them. KJV
King David to make the infraction
of Saul right, the request was that of the sons of the former King Saul.
Unfair, not right, not at the very least from the perspective of this mother
named Rizpah.
Here is a part of that story. Rizpah after
hearing of this she goes to where her sons lay.
2 Sam 21:8 But the king took
the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni
and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she
brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:
9 And he delivered them into
the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD:
and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest,
in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
10 And Rizpah the daughter of
Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of
harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the
birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night. KJV
Don’t just pass over this. Can you
imagine Rizpah beating away the fowls of the air during the day? Not to mention
the beasts of the field from day to evening and through out the night? This was somewhere around 49 days
she did this.
What’s the point of this on Mother’s
day??? Its simple. There are devils. There are spirits from temptations,
struggles, enemies, addictions in life. That just like Rizpah there are mothers that
take whatever she has available to her and beats away such things that so much
worse. Even than that of the dead of Rizpah being consumed by the fowls and the beasts.
To me this is what makes a mother.
Not a mother who herself is consumed with money, a lifestyle of things
of this corrupted world. Things that are un becoming of a mother, but instead a mother
who goes and prays for her children, and grandchildren. Praying and beating away such demons
and attacks of hell. I know what it is to have such a mother. I know what
it is to have a linage of mothers who knew how to make a closet of prayer. Knew
the importance of taking her children to church. Knew how important the man of
GOD for her life and the life of her family. Who knew the importance of faithfulness in all commandments of
the LORD. A mother that knows the importance of GOD’S plan of salvation. I HAVE THAT MOTHER…
THANK YOU MOM… NOT ENOUGH CAN BE SAID… NOR ARE THERE WORDS TO SAY, TO ADEQUATELY
SHOW THE DEEP APPRECIATION I FEEL. THANK YOU MOM FOR SHOWING ME AND HOLDING ON TO THE WAYS OUR LORD
JESUS CHRIST.
Just like Rizpah her actions got
the attention of the king, and when king David heard of this precious
mother who did what she did just to preserve her children. King David stepped
in and answered this mother’s prayer. He kept her children from being consumed
by the natural things of this world. For her two boys she fought the heat of the sun by day, and the cold of night, but it was her prayer that was
answered. It was she that got the attention of the king.
I know my GOD has heard the
prayers of my mother time and time again. My mother has got the attention of heaven for me, and for my brother and sister on many occasions. Because her
righteous prayers were and will always be rewarded. Her answers have preserved me. Thank you mom and a much deserved HAPPY
MOTHERS DAY!!!
