A mother’s love - an evidence of God

My friend’s mum died of lung cancer on 27 May, Saturday.
On Sunday night, I attended the wake and saw her cried till her eyes and nose were red. I know she had done her best to love and care for her mum. So I comforted her that her mum is bless to have a daughter like her. She replied that she is blessed to have her mum. And told me to cherish my mum.

My mind had a flash back of many illustrations of mother’s love. The basic instinct of a mother is to love her child unconditionally.

If you asked a mother, “Why do you love you child?”
The answer is “Because I give birth to him/her.”
It is like saying, “I created my child. So I naturally love my child.”

My mum once told me that a mother’s love enables her to die for the sake of her child.
There is real life story of how a mother will run into a house that is on fire just to save her child.
There is also real life story of no matter how wayward a child is, the mother’s love always forgive and wanting the child return to the right path of life.

My friends that are mothers often shared with me the many things that they are doing for their children. Always wanting to give them the very best.

All of a sudden, there is a connection in my mind between a mother’s love and God’s love.
God is love (1 John 4:8b) and He created us (Genesis 1:27).
Because He created us, He loves us naturally.
And He puts love into mothers’ heart to love their children naturally. It is an evidence that show the world the existence of God (Romans 1:20).
And because of His love, despite the fact that we are like wayward child that refuse to recognize Him, He still die for us (Romans 5:8). And because He loves us, He want to give us the very best; that is the wonderful new life in Christ Jesus.

I am very blessed to have a mother that loves me sacrificially and unconditionally. It is her unconditional love that enables me to believe that there is a God that loves me unconditionally.

If you ever doubt the existence of God, or the love of God; why not observe how a mother loves her baby? ;)

Below are the Bible verses for easy reference. It is from the New International Version (NIV).

1 John 4:8b God is love.

Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.