Friday, May 10, 2019

Mother's Day

What is the best gift a child can give to their mother?

Anna Jarvis started a campaign for a day for people to honor their mother in 1905 AD in honor her mother.  In 1908 AD, the first celebration of Mother's Day occurred in her church.  Congress rejected her request to make it a national holiday that same year.  In 1910 AD, West Virginia became the first state to recognize Mother's Day as a state holiday.  By 1911 AD, every state in the United States recognized it as a state holiday.  So in 1914 AD, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation that made Mother's Day an official US holiday that fell on the second Sunday of May each year.

However, people did not really honor their mothers in the way that Jarvis had intended for very long.

By the 1920's Hallmark and other greeting card companies were selling Mother's Day cards to replace the hand-written letters of gratitude that people had been writing to their mother on Mother's Day.  Soon, the floral industry got involved and started a tradition of people giving a carnation for their mother to wear on Mother's Day.  Then the candy industry started a tradition of people giving their mother a box of chocolates on Mother's Day. After that, all kinds of industries got involved in promoting people giving their mother all kinds of things as gifts on Mother's Day.

This holiday and its gift giving caught on.  Today, 118 other countries celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May each year.  Most of the remaining countries of the world celebrate a similar holiday each year, often with a different name, and on a different date. 

Some of these countries have simply renamed older religious holidays that were for honoring someone or something other than the physical mother of a person to Mother's Day or the like.

So, what is the best gift a child can give their mother?

People might think of something that their mother wants is the best gift, but that is not always the case.  For instance, their mother might want tickets to an event.  However, after the event is over, the gift has been used up.  The only thing that they will have later is memories of the event.  Eventually, those memories will fade.

Often, the best gift that anyone can give anyone for any occasion is a gift that they need.  For example, if someone is always struggling to accomplish a task, then the best gift might be a tool that makes that task a lot easier.  This gift will keep on giving for years to come.

Of course, what people need often varies from person to person - and mothers are no different.  However, there are somethings that all people need, including shelter.  So, the gift of a house can be a gift that keeps on giving for a lifetime.

However, a gift that never stops giving is even better than one that gives for a lifetime.  This is truly the best gift that a child can give their mother.

The best gift that a Child of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) can give their mother, or anyone else, is an invitation to come into the House of Truth.  If their mother will receive this gift, then they will truly get the gift that never stops giving.

If their mother will come into the House of Truth, then the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) will give her eternal life (John 10:27-28).  She will never die (John 11:25-26).

Their mother will be given a body that cannot be contained by the grave (1 Corinthians 15:52-55).  The aging body that she now has, will be replaced with an ageless body like that of the Man of Truth (Philippians 3:20-21).

Their mother will be given the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) to live in her forever (John 14:16-17).  The Spirit of Truth will help her to know the truth about all things (John 16:13).  The Spirit of Truth will give her gifts to do supernatural things as well (1 Corinthians 12:4-11).  The Spirit of Truth will change her nature to that of the Man of Truth (Galatians 5:22-23).

Their mother will be given a place to live with the Man of Truth and the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) forever.  The Man of Truth will take her to the place that he left this Earth to prepare for her (John 14:1-3).  She will be marked forever as part of the family that lives in this house with the Man of Truth and the Father of Truth (Revelation 3:12).  She will never have another day with sorrow or pain in her new house (Revelation 21:2-4).  She will live in the greatest and most beautiful house of all time (Revelation 21:10-21).  This beautiful house will have an equally beautiful garden (Revelation 22:1-2).

Not only that, but their mother will be given a permanent job.  She will reign with the Man of Truth over the Earth forever (Revelation 1:5-6).

When someone gives their mother this gift, they are giving her everything, both in this world and in the world to come.

How could anyone give their mother a better gift than this gift?

This is the gift that I gave to my mother when she finally received my gift and took The Deal.  She died shortly after that, but I have never been able to shed even one tear of grief, because my joy that she has received the best gift possible, has swallowed up every hint of sorrow.  I almost lost my mother three years ago, but now I have gained her for eternity.

My mother receiving this gift, after thirty three years of me offering her this gift, has made me glad that I had chosen to stay on this Earth, when I went to the brink of death two years earlier.  The trials that I have faced since then would have all been worth it, if this was the only thing that resulted from my decision to stay.  It was not an easy decision, since like every Child of Truth, I would have literally been better off dead.

However, perhaps your mother has already come into the House of Truth, but you have not.  Your current condition and final destination are weighing heavily on her.  It is a constant source of worry for her.  The best gift you could possibly give her, would be to come into the House of Truth as well.

Your mother does not want you to go to the Chamber of Horrors.  She does not want you to go the place prepared for the Father of Lies (HaShatan aka Satan Aka The Devil) and the Angels of Lies, because you never knew the Man of Truth (Matthew 25:41).  She does not want you to miss out on all of good things that she will experience, because some deceiver told you that you can experience these things without coming into the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 6:9-10).   She does not want you to experience how terrible it is to fall into the hands of the Father of Truth, when He is taking out vengeance on His enemies, because you refused to come into the House of Truth (Hebrews 10:27-31).

Your mother wants you to have the better resurrection.  She wants you to be resurrected to lasting life, instead of being resurrected to everlasting condemnation (Daniel 12:2).  She does not want you to resurrected, just to experience being found guilty by the Father of Truth, and being thrown into the Lake of Fire, because you refused to come into the House of Truth (Revelation 20:11-15).  She wants you to live with her in the beautiful house, instead of burning to death endlessly in the Lake of Fire (Revelation 21:7-10).

In short, your mother wants you to be part of His forever family, so she can spend eternity with you.

What better gift could you give your mother than to remove this terrible burden from her, and replace it with the joy of knowing that you are going to live forever with her?

What if your mother has already died?  Is there any gift can you give to her?

For example, the mother of my wife died three days ago.  She has already been buried, but we will be having a memorial for her two days from now on Mother's Day.  What would gift would she want for Mother's Day?

The mother of my wife returned to the Mormon church after the father of my wife died ten years ago.  I have shown her in the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) why the Book of Mormon cannot be compatible with the Book of Truth (The Bible).  Still, after thirty-six years of being offered this gift, she has refused to accept it.

Unless she repented after I lasted talked to her, I have lost her forever.   If she accepted this gift during those final twelve hours of her life, then I have gained her forever.  After all, it is how you end that determines where you will spend eternity.

Whether I have gained her forever, or lost her forever, she still wants the same gifts from her children.  If your mother has already died, then she wants the same gifts as well.

If your mother came into the House of Truth, then she wants all of her children to live with her after her time on Earth is done.  If your mother did not come into the House of Truth, then she does not want any of her children to come to the place of torment with her (Luke 16:23-28).

So, either way, the greatest gift that her children, who have not came into the House of Truth, can give their mother, is for them to come into the House of Truth.

What about her children, who have already came into the House of Truth? What gift can they give their dearly departed mother?

The greatest gift that they can give their deceased mother, is to do their part in carrying out the Great Commission, so other people she loves, can be offered the great gift of an invitation to come into the House of Truth.

While your deceased mother is certain about the need for you to come into the House of Truth, you might not be so sure.  You might be wondering, what proof is there that you need to come into the House of Truth?

The Father of Truth has given assurance to all people that they will face His judgment, unless they come into the House of Truth, by the Resurrection of the Man of Truth (Acts 17:30-31).

You can be certain that the Resurrection of the Man of Truth happened.  The Resurrection of the Man of Truth is the most well documented event of the entire Roman era, with over 13,000 known ancient documents (Some are from outside the Roman Empire) confirming that it happened.  The Acts has been proven time and again to be a flawlessly reliable book of history.  To deny the Resurrection is to deny all of history.

So, if you have not come into the House of Truth, then give your mother the greatest gift possible, by coming into the House of Truth.

You come into the House of Truth by surrendering control of your life to the Man of Truth, because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).

Come into the House of Truth!

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