INTRODUCTION

Godly ladies are known for their love. At first glance, one might use Isaiah 49:15Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
See All... to argue otherwise, but the Lord uses a mother’s love to depict the peak of earthly love that fails only when compared to His own. In the New Testament church, it is the responsibility of the older women to pass this trait on to the younger women by teaching them how to love their husbands and children (Titus 2:4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children,
See All...). God made the heart of the woman tender, and this heart can only be hardened by sin. When all things are right, the godly woman makes it her priority to care for those whom God has given her, and she does so in love. Examples of this love flood the pages of scripture.

DEVOTIONAL THOUGHTS

• (For smaller children) Timothy's grandmother showed love by teaching his mother about God and His word. His mother, in turn, taught Timothy (2 Timothy 1:5When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
  See All...; 2 Timothy 3:15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
  See All...). When children are sick, mothers show love by praying, caring, and seeking help for them (2 Kings 4:18-22 [18] And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. [19] And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother. [20] And when he had taken him, and brought him to his mother, he sat on her knees till noon, and then died. [21] And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out. [22] And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.
  See All...; Mark 7:25-30 [25] For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet: [26] The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter. [27] But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs. [28] And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs. [29] And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. [30] And when she was come to her house, she found the devil gone out, and her daughter laid upon the bed.
  See All...).
• What did Hannah do each year to demonstrate her love for Samuel (1 Samuel 2:19Moreover his mother made him a little coat, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.
  See All...)? How did Hagar demonstrate love for Ishmael in Genesis 21:16And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.
  See All...? What are some ways in which the wife or mother in your home demonstrates love?
• What is so special about a mother’s love? How does it differ from that of a father? Who made the woman to love like that?

PRAYER NEEDS

• Ask the Lord to increase the love in your home.
• Thank God for putting it in the heart of women to love.

HYMN

Take My Life, and Let it Be

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