Sunday is Mother’s Day, a day set aside to honor our mothers for all that they have done in our lives, in our town, in our state, in our nation and in our world. My hope is that this short article will remind us why this day is reserved for mothers.
I believe that it is the boundless, priceless LOVE of mothers that caused us to set aside a day to honor them. It is their LOVE that causes huge muscle-bound men to look into a camera after doing something significant in sports and say, “Hi, mom.” A mother’s LOVE is what causes them to do and be what few men would ever do or be. Want an example?
Her name was Rizpah. 2 Samuel 21:7-14 Her beginning in the scriptures was: “Now Saul had a concubine named Rizpah daughter of Aiah.” That’s right; she was the mistress of Psycho Saul and by him she had 2 sons: Armoni and Mephibosheth (not Johnathan’s crippled son)
We don’t hear another word about her until 2 Samuel 21. There David faced a three-year famine in the land of Israel and he asked God, “Why?” (you have to be careful what you ask God about, He just might answer) God informed David that the three-year famine was the result of the previously unmentioned killing of many Gibeonites by King Saul. To end the famine David contacted the Gibeonites and (thinking gold/silver) asked what they would consider appropriate payment to right this past wrong. They said they weren’t interested in money, that only the blood from Saul’s family could set things right. The Gibeonites asked for 7 lives, not nearly as many as Saul no doubt had killed. David came up with the list: two of Saul’s sons via Rizpah and five of his grandsons via his daughter Mirab.
The Gibeonites took the seven, publicly hung them and then left their bodies hanging exposed to nature until rain showers came to break the famine.
Rizpah couldn’t do a thing to stop what happened to her two sons. What do you do when you can’t do anything BIG? That is when a mother does what you can. Rizpah packed up some blankets and bedding and set-up a camp site among the rotting bodies on the hilltop where she could at least protect her boy’s bodies from robbers, animals, birds and anybody or anything else that dared come near her boys. At least if she did that she could give them some degree of honor and dignity for their possible future burial.
There is a great deal of disagreement concerning how long Rizpah held vigil. Many commentators believe that it could have been as long as five months. She watched each day with the passion of a mother for her boys. She no doubt fought off buzzards and carnivorous animals who came to turn her boys into supper. She suffered through the burning sun each day on that hilltop, not knowing when it would finally end. ONLY A MOTHER WOULD HAVE DONE THAT. A father probably could, BUT ONLY A MOTHER WOULD.
When David heard of her vigil it so moved him that he combined the gathering of the bones of all seven with the gathering of those of Saul and Jonathan (21:11) and had a dignified burial for all of them. A royal burial for her sons was her reward for doing what only a mother would do.
Most mothers are like Rizpah, they cover their children with an immeasurable LOVE that would prompt them to lay down their life for their children any day, anytime. My pray is that on this Mother’s Day, every son and daughter would remember all of the times they have been covered in the vast LOVE of their mother and do something to say THANK YOU, MOM.
Mike Sublett is a pastor at Hi-Land Christian Church, 1615 N. Banks St., Pampa, Texas 79065. Email him at pawdad@nts-online.net.
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