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magine scrolling through a list of job a few short hours. For others, it’s during a
vacancies and stumbling across one brief coffee break, as the washing machine
Istating, “Wanted: Robust, committed, continues to whirr beside an ever-growing
career orientated, industrious person. 24hr stack of unfolded, unironed clothes, whilst
shifts, 7 days a week, no holidays or sick the unclean dishes scream loudly from the
leave, wages paid in arrears.” How many sink. There will be times when you feel
of us would apply? Not for the faint- overwhelmed. In those moments, pause,
hearted, the relentless, often monotonous, draw a breath, and consider that He who
backbreaking and sometimes heartbreak- knows all things is observing.
ing toil of motherhood is a work we ought It was said of the virtuous woman that
to esteem highly. In this article, we’ll at- “strength and honour are her clothing.”
tempt to do so under dual headings: the Remember, if God never allowed you to
Work and Worth of Motherhood. feel your own weakness, how would you
The Work of Motherhood ever prove His strength? If motherhood
had no cross to bear, how could there be
If at the end of a working day, many any glory? Beloved sister, in the midst of
have the luxury of shutting down comput- all the arduous toil, noise, mess and some-
ers, turning off work phones and closing times heartbreak of motherhood, take
up shop, we do well to remember that a fresh confidence that God is perfecting
mother’s work never stops. The around- something in you that reflects the person
the-clock occupation of motherhood is a of His Son. With this, He has guaranteed
selfless work, necessitating the placing of that you “shall rejoice in time to come”
others’ needs before your own. Mothers (Pro 31:25).
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reading this article will undoubtedly do Motherhood is a spiritual work, and
so with few precious minutes to spare. For twice to Timothy, Paul pays credit to
some, it may be in the middle of the night,
while nursing a newborn, anticipating the 1 Bible quotations in this article are from the
noisy entrance of a bright-eyed toddler in KJV.

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