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http://www.landoverbaptist.org/ is a good source for Pro-God Baptists. Mothers Day is coming up and they remind us of Jesus' words about mothers like yours (and you).

"Can you imagine being doted and hounded by your own mother as much as Jesus was from His? Even for a Jewish mother, the woman was clearly a pest. Scripture reveals to us that she was an insufferable leech when it came to her precious Son. Once, when Jesus was attending a sleazy wedding party in Galilee, His mother started pestering Him to perform one of His magic tricks when they ran out of cheap grape juice. Jesus turned to her and said, "Woman, what have I to do with thee?" (John 2:4). He must have been so fed up with His mother's incessant nagging (and her insisting that He accompany her to such a trashy event) that He turned 6 vessels of water into Welch's grape juice just to get her to shut up for the rest of the day. And when Mary gulped down a big glass of unfermented wine she became furious that she wasn't getting the buzz she craved and said things to Jesus in language that the editors of the Gospels refused to even transcribe.

Mary was always trying to make a momma's boy out of Jesus, but He just wouldn't stand for it. He was more of Daddy's boy. But He even got fed up with His own Heavenly Father in the end, as well. He did everything His Daddy God asked Him to, but when He was slapped onto the cross like a slab of raw meat, He was all alone shouting, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46). And while Jesus was hanging up there, being barbecued in the hot sun for the sins of mankind, He was still able to muster enough strength to look down at His confused mother and scream, "Woman, behold thy son!" (John 19:26). This was the Judaic equivalent of "Well, I hope you're satisfied!"

Jesus' words there reflect a smug satisfaction through His pain and suffering that He would never again be subjected to a life of having to impress His mother's friends at Jerusalem tea parties with His super powers. The good Lord would only perform one more trick before leaving this world: to cheat death. And it wouldn't be for His mother. He became undead for all of us! Particularly those of us here at Landover Baptist and other Bible believing churches across America! Glory to God! But you better believe, during His brief time as a freshly resurrected corpse He wasn't even tempted to seek out his yenta harpy of a mother to spook her! No sir! He hotfooted right back to Heaven!"

-- posted by HeadZenCards