Our Daily Bread
Sunday, May 14, 1995

Read: 2 Timothy 1:1-7


                      A MOTHER'S INFLUENCE
                                
                      I thank God ... when
                      I call to remembrance
                     the genuine faith that
                     is in you, which dwelt
                    first in ... your mother.

                        - 2 Timothy 1:3,5


As a lawyer, as a congressman, as Governor of Ohio, and as
President of the United States, William McKinley had a close
relationship with his mother. He either visited her or sent a
message to her every day.

When she became seriously ill, he arranged to have a special
train standing by, ready to take him to her bedside. Mrs.
McKinley died December 12, 1897, in the arms of her 54-year-old
son. Her gentle, Christian virtues helped mold the President's
character, for when he was gunned down in Buffalo, New York,
about 4 years later, he showed no bitterness toward his assassin.
With Christian courage he said, "God's will be done." Before he
died, he asked to hear once again the hymn, "Nearer, My God, to
Thee," which his mother had taught him.

Perhaps you too have been blessed with a Christian heritage. But
unlike McKinley, you've strayed from God. On this day set aside
to honor mothers, confess your sin and come back to the Lord. Let
the precious memories of that special person in your life, who
all these years has been pointing you to God, awaken in your
heart a new desire to live for Him. Don't turn your back on the
influence of your godly mother.


- Dennis J. De Haan

                 Our thanks, O God, for mothers
                   Who show, by word and deed,
                 Commitment to Thy will and plan
                   And Thy commandments heed.
                                
                            - Johnson


Thought for the Day: No man is poor who has had a godly mother.
                     - Abraham Lincoln

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