May 11th, 2025
By: Kara Wallis
With Mother’s Day being celebrated this month, I hope that we can all take time to celebrate the mothers in our lives whether they are biological, adoptive, foster, step, or spiritual. May we also remember and honor those who may be grieving as well. I have spent a lot of time reflecting on the women of God in my life that have poured so much Godly wisdom into me. I have been blessed to have so many women show me true strength and love. Many of the good qualities I possess are attributed to the examples that I have seen lived out before me and for that I am very thankful.
In John 19:25-27 it says, “ Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,”and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.”
From that time on, this disciple took her into his home. As the oldest son in His family, Jesus had a cultural responsibility to care for His mother. As we learn about how the early church developed, we see that Jesus’ mother became part of the household of John the disciple after Jesus was crucified.
She became a mother to John and helped to take care of him. He gave them this relationship of mutual adoption that framed their future even while he paid the price for all our sin. The beauty of how Jesus loved, honored and cared for His mother is reflected in this scripture passage. God’s Word clearly teaches the importance of caring for widows and the elderly. This was something that Jesus personally applied during His final hours of earthly ministry.
How he connected and linked Mary and John is incredible. The early church was noted for their love for one another in Christ. James, Jesus’ half brother, later calls caring for widows “pure religion.”
James 1:27 says,”Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
We are called to love one another and have the perfect example of Jesus' life and death to show us how to do this. He first loved us.
John 13:34 states: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”
With Mother’s Day being celebrated this month, I hope that we can all take time to celebrate the mothers in our lives whether they are biological, adoptive, foster, step, or spiritual. May we also remember and honor those who may be grieving as well. I have spent a lot of time reflecting on the women of God in my life that have poured so much Godly wisdom into me. I have been blessed to have so many women show me true strength and love. Many of the good qualities I possess are attributed to the examples that I have seen lived out before me and for that I am very thankful.
In John 19:25-27 it says, “ Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,”and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.”
From that time on, this disciple took her into his home. As the oldest son in His family, Jesus had a cultural responsibility to care for His mother. As we learn about how the early church developed, we see that Jesus’ mother became part of the household of John the disciple after Jesus was crucified.
She became a mother to John and helped to take care of him. He gave them this relationship of mutual adoption that framed their future even while he paid the price for all our sin. The beauty of how Jesus loved, honored and cared for His mother is reflected in this scripture passage. God’s Word clearly teaches the importance of caring for widows and the elderly. This was something that Jesus personally applied during His final hours of earthly ministry.
How he connected and linked Mary and John is incredible. The early church was noted for their love for one another in Christ. James, Jesus’ half brother, later calls caring for widows “pure religion.”
James 1:27 says,”Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”
We are called to love one another and have the perfect example of Jesus' life and death to show us how to do this. He first loved us.
John 13:34 states: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”
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