After I became a mother, there were many things in my life that I had to pack up and keep aside in a corner because it seemed as though I couldn’t accommodate them anymore in my life. Initially, the reasons were genuine; I was a busy mom, and most days were caught up taking care of my newborns.

Many months later, the busyness began to subside, and once again, I had time to spare. However, I found myself unable to take out what I had carefully tucked into a corner. The thought of starting all over again overwhelmed me.

I began to get comfortable with motherhood, and it looked easier to simply settle where I was. I won’t be questioned; being a mother was my excuse. But God began to tug at my heart.

Motherhood is not the end of your story

Isn’t this a familiar story we find among us mothers? Let me show you from the Bible how God doesn’t want you to make motherhood your dwelling place.

“And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram’s wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and dwelt there. So the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran.”

Genesis 11:31-32

I believe that before God spoke to Abraham, He put it in the heart of Abraham’s father, Terah, to leave his country and go to Canaan. Canaan was the Promised Land, the land overflowing with milk and honey.

So Terah, with his children, set out to go to Canaan. However, when he came to Haran, he got comfortable with the place and decided to dwell there. He decided to put a full stop to his journey.

But this was not God’s will. And now He called Terah’s son Abraham and his wife out of that family to continue the journey to the promised land.

When we begin this journey with Jesus, the end destination is the promised land. Yet when we have journeyed a long way, we may get weary and then when we reach a certain place we can get too comfortable and decide to make that our dwelling place.

But this is not God’s will.

Dust off your God dreams

Dear mother, God brought you this far. He gave you the gift of motherhood. But this is not the end destination of your journey. You still have got to get to the promised land.

Don’t get too comfortable with motherhood that you decide to make that your dwelling place and decide to put a full stop to your journey.

God is not done with you. God has so much more that He will do through your life. It’s time to dust off your God-given dreams that you have kept hidden with the excuse of being a mother and start dreaming big again. You are able to do it through Him who has called you.

When your children grow up seeing you pursue and accomplish your God dreams, they will never consider parenthood or anything else as a full stop to their journey to the land God has promised.

Mamas, this is our wake-up call.

Ria Jobin