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The Most Important Characteristic of a Godly Mother

“Contrary to popular opinion, the most important characteristic of a godly mother is her relationship, not with her children, but with her husband. What you communicate to your children through your marital relationship will stay with them for the rest of their lives. By watching you and your husband, they are learning the most fundamental lessons of life-love, self-sacrifice, integrity, virtue, sin, sympathy, compassion, understanding, and forgiveness. Whatever you teach them about those things, right or wrong, is planted deep within their hearts.”

So says John MacArthur in his article for Mother’s Day entitled The Profile of a Godly Mother. This is MacArthur at his best. Go read it!


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