When I Grow Up…I Want to Be a Mommy (Day 6.4)

We’re still Breaking Free in our Beth Moore Bible study and looking at the four key desires we had as young girls: to be a bride, to be beautiful, to be a Mommy and to live happily every after. Today we examine the desire to be a Mommy when we grow up.

Many women have experienced motherhood through natural birth or adoption. We know other women who are unable to birth children or decide not to become mothers. As children claiming “I want to be when I grow up…” we expressed our wishes to live a particular lifestyle and then as adult women we find that lifestyle may have changed.

When we consider why most little girls want to me a mommy when they grow up, we see that many desire to teach, love and nurture others. God shows us this is possible even if you are not a mother, and Beth emphasises the spiritual calling to lead and guide younger women to be spiritual daughters of the King.

Prayer Requests

Father God, you have called us to singleness, childlessness, or motherhood and you have called us to be spiritual women and leaders. Teach us to grow and share our spiritual maturity with others. May your glory shine through our beauty and your Words, in Jesus name. Amen.

Beth Moore Quotes

• Until we surrender our hopes and dreams to Christ, we have little way of knowing what would fulfill us-Beth Moore
• Most women who are banking on circumstantial contentment find themselves in emotional bankruptcy sooner or later-Beth Moore
• Unhappy women usually need a change of heart more than a change of circumstances-Beth Moore
• Our disappointment with God is often the result of small thinking-Beth Moore

Today’s Scripture Verses

The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” Acts 10:15

Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4

Then they can train the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God. Titus 2:4-5

For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ Titus 2:11-15

Group Discussion

Have you ever received something you desperately wanted, but then felt unsatisfied after receiving it? If so, explain.

Breaking free,