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God is the Father, yet it is deeper and more complex than that. He has the characteristics of both a mother and a father. In Gen. 5:2 it says: “Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.” He made both man and woman in His image.

God love us like a father and, as the Word of God makes clear, he also loves us like a mother. Mothers love a child in a way that is unique, even when the child is wrong. A mother is compassionate at times when the father is stern. In the Scriptures God has explicitly revealed the characteristic of motherhood in His personality.

In Isaiah 49:15, the Lord said, “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?” Later in Isaiah 66:13 the Lord said, “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you.”

Jesus said, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” (Luke 13:34).

God is the Father and the Son, yet He is dynamic in His personality. He is compassionate and even expresses a mother’s need to nurture and comfort her children. Praise God today for His profound nature and sense of motherly compassion. Praise Him that mothers are made in His image.