Thank God for Moms! The Loving Mom by David Jeremiah

Thank God for Moms! The Loving Mom

MAY 26, 2018

I serve you just as my mother did.
Psalm 86:16, NIV

 Recommended Reading: 1 John 4:7-11

Mary McLeod was born to former slaves and grew up in a world of prejudice. But she also grew up loving the Lord and became one of the first black students to attend Moody Bible Institute. She became a renowned teacher of American black children.

One day while teaching on campus, Klansmen cut the power to the school and surrounded it. The young people heard the trampling of the horses and saw the hooded figures darting to and fro. But Mary had a weapon of her own—a hymn. She began singing, “Be not dismayed whate’er betide, God will take care of you.” The students joined her, and the Klansmen retreated.

Mary was a mother to her students, and her philosophy was love. She said, “Love, not hate, has been the foundation of my fullness…. Faith and love have been the most glorious and victorious defense in this ‘warfare’ of life, and it has been my privilege to use them.”

Satan and his henchmen don’t know what to do with a loving mom, for such a woman possesses the power of God.

I leave you love. I leave you hope…. I leave you faith.
Mary McLeod Bethune on her memorial