One generation shall commend your works to another,
and shall declare your mighty acts.
Psalm 145:4

C.S. Lewis once wrote this about God, “For He seems to do nothing of Himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures. He commands us to do slowly and blunderingly what He could do perfectly and in the twinkling of an eye.” That is one of the mysterious things about our God. It must please Him more and is somehow more glorifying to Him to use broken human means to accomplish all kinds of divine ends. This reminds me of mothers. God in His wisdom gave us Moms, and to be more precise, He gave each of us our own specific Mom. In so doing, God delegated (or you might prefer other words like “charged,” “called,” or “commissioned”) to them the important work of raising their children to become fully committed followers of Jesus.

I suppose the same could be said of dads, but it goes almost without saying that moms and dads are different. They are not more than or less than dads, of course, but they are definitely a different kind of wonderful. We all intuitively grasp the beautiful synergy and the complimentary balance that flow from those ancient words found in Genesis, “male and female He created them.” When God said of Adam that it was not good for him to be alone, what He meant was that Adam could not on his own reflect the fullness of who God is, but Adam and Eve did. Moms represent God to us in a way that dads typically don’t and vice versa.