How should a Christian mother view children?
1. As a gift and miracle from God and not as drudgery.
2. She has been entrusted by God to care for them during their time on earth.
3. She delights in them and is thankful for them, even on hard days.
4. She is protective, never bad-mouthing her children to others or slandering them.
5. She understands that they are the next generation entrusted with the Gospel.
6. She knows their souls are precious to God and that He knows the number of every hair on their head.
7. She knows she is accountable to God for how she raises them, so she faithfully sacrifices her love, her patience, and her life for them.
8. She understands that even as they are in a state of infancy now that this precious season is quickly fleeting and in a blink of an eye they will grow up---so she savors the moment.
9. She welcomes the number of children the Lord gives her and treasures each one in her heart because she knows that He has a purpose for each and every single one--- even if the world doesn't see it that way. She rejects the lie that children are a burden.
10. She understands and embraces the future, knowing her job is not done when her children graduate from high school or when they turn eighteen, instead it takes on a different form of support through acts of love and prayer and continues on until she takes her last breath.
Taken from True Christian Motherhood
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