God Bless You this Mothers Day!

“Her children rise up and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:
‘Many women have done excellently,
but you surpass them all.’”
— Proverbs 31:28–29

Mother’s Day gives us a chance to stop for a moment and think about the women who helped hold our lives together.

Maybe your mom stayed up with you when you were sick. Maybe she prayed for you when nobody else knew you were struggling. Maybe she carried stress she never talked about just so you could have peace. Maybe she encouraged you when you felt like quitting. Maybe she just hugged you when life got heavy.

Mothers are the backbone of our everyday lives- and most of the time, we don’t even notice.

That’s why these verses in Book of Proverbs are so powerful.

What’s incredible is that this isn’t just some random verse dropped into the middle of the Bible. This is the final chapter of Proverbs. After thirty chapters about life… choices, anger, temptation, discipline, relationships, money, leadership, and wisdom, this book closes with words spoken to a king by his mother.

Think about that.

A king would spend his life around power, wealth, status, influence, and responsibility. He would see strength. He would see success. But after all he saw, this is how the book ends. It ends honoring the strength and the character of a godly woman.

It ends talking about how she loves faithfully. How she sacrifices. How she endures. How she carries people through life with wisdom and strength.

Even the original Hebrew language behind this verse paints that picture. The word used for “excellent” is the word chayil. It’s a word tied to strength, courage, resilience, and even warrior-like strength.

In other words, the Bible is not describing weakness here. It’s describing a woman who keeps showing up. A woman who carries a burden with grace. A woman who holds things together when life gets difficult.

And when the verse says, “Her children rise up and call her blessed,” –  the words  “rise up” in Hebrew are similar to courtroom or royal language — it’s like publicly saying “ this person is worthy of honor”

So, this is not just kids saying “thanks mom.” It’s a family recognizing, openly and intentionally, the weight of what she has done. The prayers. The sacrifice. The patience. The love. The quiet strength that has carried everything without regardless of how hard it truly was

That’s what makes the ending of Proverbs so beautiful. After everything this book teaches us about life, it wraps up like this: greatness is found in sacrificial strength, wisdom, faithfulness, and love lived out daily inside of a mother and a wife.

That doesn’t mean only mothers can carry those qualities. Scripture shows faithful men and women living this way throughout the entire Bible. But it does show just how deeply God values the quiet strength and faithful love so many mothers carry every single day.

Happy Mothers Day and God Bless You Always