Psalm 145, Mama

Tonight we will talk about the love and majesty of God and how we can see it in our lives as mamas. 

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Good evening, mamas, and welcome back to Midlight, your light in the middle of the night. Tonight I want to talk to you about God's love, and I want to talk to you about how God's love is so much like the love of a mother. You know how you never understood fierce love truly until you had your little one? And then once that little one was here, you understood why sometimes people call mamas mama bears, because we will do anything to protect our little ones. And tonight I want to talk to you about the love of God and how it changes us as mamas. God's love is just woven so beautifully throughout his word, but tonight I actually want to read you a psalm, and it's a little bit lengthy but not terribly, and I just want you to listen as I read you this Psalm 145, and the title is A Song of God's Majesty and Love, A Praise of David. Verse 1. I will extol you, my God, O King, and I will bless your name for ever and ever. Every day I will bless you, and I will bless your name for ever and ever. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise your works to another. That's us, mammas, and shall declare your mighty acts again when we share what God has done in our lives, right? I will meditate on the glorious splendor of your majesty and on your wondrous works. That's when we look around like in the mountains and in nature, and we awe at God's wondrous works and his majesty. Men shall speak of the might of your awesome acts, and I will declare your greatness. They shall utter the memory of your great goodness and shall sing of your righteousness. Isn't this our calling, mamma? Isn't this what God has called us to do? Verse eight, the Lord is gracious and full of compassion. I think us mammas are too. Slow to anger and great in mercy. O Lord, I pray I am. I sure don't want to be quick to anger, and I want to be great in mercy and full of compassion for my children. How about you, mamma? The Lord is good to all in his tender mercies are over all his works. What about us, mammas? Are our tender mercies over our works with our children? I hope so, and if not, tomorrow's a new day. Verse ten All your works shall praise you, O Lord, and your saints shall bless you. They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom, and talk of your power, to make known to the sons of man his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. That's us, you guys, and our children too. Verse fourteen says, The Lord upholds all who fall, and raises up all who are bowed down. The eyes of all look expectantly to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. Verse seventeen. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, gracious in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call upon him. That's us two, mammas. He's near to us, to all who call upon him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry and save them. The Lord preserves all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. He's kind of a mama bear too, isn't he? My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord, and all flesh shall bless his holy name forever and ever. That is a psalm of David, and I wanted to read it to you tonight because I want you to see the character of God in that psalm, that he upholds us, that he draws near to us, that he will keep us safe and destroy anything that's wicked around us, that his kingdom endures through all generations. How beautiful is that, Mama? Today, earlier, I had this blessing. I was standing in church and I was in the middle of our music time, and I felt a back, a hand on my back, and it was my daughter, and her and her husband and my two grandsons had arrived at our church, and our church isn't very big, it's just a small church where I live, but my daughter and her husband often drive the hour and forty minutes to join me at church with my other children. And I don't know how to describe to you the blessing that is to me as a mother, but when we raise our children up in the Lord, they see it. I have not made perfect decisions, I have not been a perfect mother to my children, but my heart is full of compassion, and I am tender with my children, and I have sought to share the word of God in such a real way with my children. And today I got to stand and sing with my grandson on my hip and my daughter and her husband beside me with my other grandson while my other little ones were in children's church. But I tell you, there's a legacy of generations that will endure forever if we choose to share the truth of our faith with our children. It's one of the greatest gifts of my life, and I wanted to share that with you tonight, Mamas, because it was a blink ago that I was rocking her in the middle of the night, and I was singing over her and praying over her, and at the time I was wondering if there would be fruit to come. In fact, I just didn't know. My children and I have walked through some very difficult seasons, but they learned early on where their trust was. They learned that their trust was in the Lord. They knew they could count on me as a mom, but I am flesh and I will fail at times, but the Lord He does not fail. The Lord is this. This is the Psalm 145, this is who he is, this is his majesty and his love, and I can see his love for us woven through this chapter, and I can also see the way he's created us to be in the likeness of him as mothers with our children as we praise the Lord and show our children that, as we have him speak to us in the night, as he is gracious and full of compassion, and he is slow to anger and great in mercy. There's a lot packed in this psalm, Mamas, but the thing I want you to take away is whatever the Lord showed you tonight. For me, it was the the Lord is gracious and full of compassion. This is verse eight. He is slow to anger and great in mercy. And verse nine, the Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works. The Lord is good to all. He is slow to anger and great in mercy. If we just take that little snippet and we live that out over the next 24 hours, I think we'll be on our way to being a little bit more of the mama we are hoping to be for our babies. Be slow to anger, mama. Be great in mercy. Reflect that goodness of God with your families. Thank you for letting me read this psalm to you tonight. Thank you for letting me spend time with you in the middle of the night tonight. It is truly an honor for me to get to be here with you. And tonight, Mamas, I'm gonna leave you with a blessing from number six, twenty four-twenty-six. May the Lord bless you and keep you, make his face to shine upon you, be gracious unto you and give you peace. Amen. I pray you have a wonderful evening tonight, Mama, and that the Lord refreshes you. Until next time, take care.