Take good care of your mother.

MAY. 11, 2025

Take good care of your mother.

"Every one of you shall revere his mother...I am the Lord your God." Lev 19:3 NKJV

When your parents grow old and become less capable of taking care of themselves, they need certain things from you, 

• like love, 

• kindness, 

• patience, 

• tenderness, 

• sensitivity, and 

• understanding. 

When you were a child, perhaps your mother picked you up at school because you didn't like to ride the bus, and now you're upset with her for being five minutes late. If you are a teen or a preteen, it's wrong to be more kind, considerate, and patient with your friends and your friends' mothers than your own mother. 

Indeed, if you treated your friends like you treat your mom, you wouldn't have many friends left. And if you treated their mom like you do your own, their mom wouldn't let her child have anything to do with you. When your mother gets old and needs more care, it's payback time! 

• "But she is always complaining," you say. Yes, just like you did, right? 

• "But she talks about herself and asks the same questions over and over." 

As they get older, our parents experience fears they never had before, and they need you to reassure them that you will always be there for them. One of the last things Jesus did when He was dying on the cross was to commit the care of His mother, Mary, to His close friend and disciple, John: "Then he said to the disciple, 'She is now your mother! From then on, that disciple took her into his own home" (Jn 19:27 CEV).

So, the word for you today is-take good care of your mother.

Take good care of your mother It's payback time!

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