"The Memory Of A Mother," Isaiah 49:15

THE MEMORY OF A MOTHER "Can a womanforget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. " on (Isaiah KJV) "Can a womanforget the infant at her breast, walk away from the baby she bore? But even ifmothersforget, I'd never forget you-never. "(Isaiah 49: 15 The Message) 49: 15 Recently in the news, there have been stories about mothers who abandoned their children. One mother child in a dumpster. bag at the door and dropped placed her it in a Another mother left her child steps of another house. Still another mother gave / birth, placed her children in shoe boxes and stacked them in the garage. Is it possible that a mother will carry a child for nine months and then forget the child. hand, I've seen mothers child, intending to adopt On the other who carried a that child out but after nine months decided it was too much and kept the child. I've have also heard of surrogate mothers who made a business deal to carry a child for some one decided to go to court and from giving up f.lct- '" Q. e 1 elsel\but then 0 r: fight to keep that child after birth. The text poses the question, Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she H should not have compassion on the child of her womb?" Implied in the question is the answer, No or not hardly! It is unlikely that a mother's memory would 2 r LrWL forget her own child, the flesh of her own body. Oh, I know some mothers out of necessity or whatever reason, give up their children and adopt them out but I doubt seriously if that mother ever forgets that child. A be so short as to mother's memory makes it hard for her to forget the changes that occur in her body and the connection established between her and her suckling Oh, child. the memory of a mother! In spite of the human possibility that might forget her baby, the text says emphatically that God is greater, that He will never forget His children. Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee." "But even if mothers forget, I'd never forget you-never. Aren't you glad that we know and serve a mother " ... " 3 a God who forgets When us. always remembers, His children are When in trouble, we are on shifting sands, no who never matter how little. He will not forget slippery mud and He will remember us. well, He keeps us in mind. his poem, the poet Langston When all is In Hughes speaks of the memory and compassion of a mother for her child his poem "Mother To Son." Well. son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been It's had tacks in it, no crystal stair. And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet jloor- Bare. But all the time 4 in on the /'se been a-climb in on, , And reachin landin's, ' And turnin corners, ' And sometimes goin in the dark Where there ain't been no light. ' Soboy, don't you turn back. the steps it's kinder hard Don't you set doen 'Cause you finds Don't you fall now- For /'se still goin', / 'se still climbin And life for on me " honey, ain't been crystal no stair. It will get hard sometimes, but a loving, forget her child. And God will never forget His children true mother will not no matter what. He has written names in the book of life, on the back his hands. He has noticed the 5 our os building we have done and the demolition crew is gone forever. He is gathering His children like a hen gathereth her chicks and will not miss to a one. get all of His children sheep. He coming even back the lost He will remember me! It had been thousands of years since the gates to the garden of Eden were closed, but God had not forgotten Adam. So He sent His Only Begotten Son to paid of compassion. rescue us. out He us, and sanctified all the debt as we owed He saved us, claimed His 6 own.