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Question
What images do you conjure up when you think of a mother?
Do these images help with your understanding and perception of God?
Read
“Who is the mother of the ice? Who gives birth to the frost from the heavens?” (Job 38:29 NLT)
Question
Do you think of God as male or female? Why do you think of God in that way?
Read
“So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27 NLT)
Genesis 2:18-23
Question
How does your view of women affect your view of God?
How does your view of God affect your view of women?
Read
“In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ…” (Galatians 3:28.)
Think
In the past, have we confused equality with difference?
Have you ever viewed women as somehow less than men?
Read
“As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you.” (Isaiah 66:13.)
Question
When difficult times come, do you trust God to comfort you?
Have you ever considered God to be like a mother?
Quote
“When you see a mother doing her mother thing, when a mother’s heart breaks for her children, she is tapping into the very nature of who God is and what God is like and that is a gift. That is grace, that is divine.” (Rob Bell.)
Think
“Her pain for your life.”
Do you see any similarities between the pain and suffering that a mother goes through in order to give birth to a new life, with the pain and suffering endured by God so that we could have life in all its fullness?
Just something to think about.
Pray
“May you embrace the God who’s bigger than any of our language. May you celebrate all of the images and pictures and metaphors that help us better understand who God is and what God is like. And may you be comforted as a mother comforts a child.” (Rob Bell)
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