My annual Mother's Day Tribute to a GodlyWoman
Special For Mother's Day - May 14, 2023
In loving remembrance of my mother –
Annie Hamilton Searles – 1901-1961
Tribute To A Godly Mother !
By: Robert A.Searles
Today, my Father of all creation, I
want to thank you for causing me to be born to a godly mother. Not
perfect in all her ways, to be sure, for all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God; but one whom I believe early in life
recognized her need of salvation and to be born again, and reached
out by faith to receive the greatest gift that could be offered to
her, the Lord Jesus Christ; his life, his shed blood, his death and
his glorious resurrection, for the propitiation of her sins.
Consequently, these many years that
have passed since she left us, I believe she has been, and is now
rejoicing in your presence, around your throne with myriads of
angels, singing: “Worthy is the lamb that was slain.”
In life she feared God, obeyed the
law, and honored her husband. She made her home a haven of rest, a
sanctuary from all the tumult and strife that is in the world. She
was a friend to all, and her house was like the 'house by the side
of the road', open to all who needed a meal or a shelter. She had
but one son, who in her lap and at her knee heard of God for the very
first time, who was warned by her to escape hell, that terrible
place, and to love and obey God who loves us all. From a tattered
old hymn book she taught me to sing: - “I am happy in the service
of the king, I am happy, oh , so happy.”
Not until later years did I realize
just how happy I could be in the service of the King, but now my
Father, I know that there is no other road to happiness.
I believe that when the trump of
God shall sound, when the dead in Christ arise, when time shall be no
more, and when the roll is called up yonder, she will be there.
Thank you my Father for the Lord Jesus
Christ. Thank you for forgiveness of sins. Thank you for eternal
life and the hope of heaven, and thank you for a godly mother.
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