Motherhood: When You’re Building a New World
Mother’s Day Exhortation 2025
Today is Mother’s Day, anno domini - in the year of our Lord - 2025. That phrase seems so quaint today, given that so much of American society is not of our Lord.
Our generation’s calling then is not to just bemoan this but to recover our society for Christ. But that is utterly impossible without recovering the Christian household. For God always builds society on the backs of men with mouths to feed1 and on the backs of the women that inspire them to hard work, as they live out their respective roles by faith, with virtue.
So today we honor you mothers, not because the Hallmark Company told us to, but because God is doing something glorious through you: He is rebuilding society itself. In the midst of the ruins of our present chaos, He is recovering society in the image of His Son,
In that next diaper change;
As your strong arms carry a baby in one arm and stir the pot with the other;
As you notice and celebrate that new skill your child discovered;
In your sacrifices of money, time and energy to educate them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord;
In managing your home with a joyful structure that everyone can flourish in;
In that conversation with your teen that goes way past your bedtime;
In praying for the one that left the nest and flew into strange philosophies;
In joyfully accepting the prodigal that returns home;
In taking the grandkids one night a week;
In saving up an inheritance . . .
For all these and other things you do, we honor you. Keep going, for not everything gets burned up in the end. God is building some things through you that will go into eternity.
Keep going, for not everything gets burned up in the end. God is building some things through you that will go into eternity.
Now, you children: the lesson today is that we must live all our lives with honor to our mothers. Mother’s Day might seem like you should only honor your mother once a year, but Christians view Mother’s Day as training for the other 364 days of the year.
The way we do this is by faith in God’s grace. Faith believes God’s promise to us, that if we honor our mother and our Father, He will bless our lives with grace. Do you want to have a hard, bad life or a happy, blessed life? God promises to give that happy life, through honoring your parents, and especially today, mom.
Thank you, George Gilder, for this wonderful phrase.