"He" as a reference to Spirit has been used in theology to match the pronoun for God, yet the Hebrew word ruach is a noun of feminine gender. Thus, referring to the Holy Spirit as "she" has some linguistic justification. Denoting Spirit as a feminine principle, the creative principle of life, makes sense when considering the Trinity aspect where Father plus Spirit leads to the Divine Extension of Divine Sonship. (J. J. Hurtak, PhD)
Caring, Understanding, Praying, Helping.
Giving, Nurturing, Healing, etc. but
WHEN WE THINK OF A MOTHER’S GREATEST ATTRIBUTE; IT HAS TO BE LOVE .
It is un-natural for a mother not to love her children. EVEN IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Gal.4:19 (KJV)
My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,
v18-20 IThe Message
It is a good thing to be ardent in doing good, but not just when I am in your presence. Can't you continue the same concern for both my person and my message when I am away from you that you had when I was with you? Do you know how I feel right now, and will feel until Christ's life becomes visible in your lives? Like a mother in the pain of childbirth. Oh, I keep wishing that I was with you. Then I wouldn't be reduced to this blunt, letter-writing language out of sheer frustration.
*Paul tells his children in the faith that he is willing to endure labor pains for them not just twice but until Christ is formed in you.
We cannot help but be moved by Paul's passion for his people. He feels their pain; he identifies with their struggle. He has the heart of a good mother caring for her newborn.
(VP New Testament Commentaries )
Let us look at the Church and its function as St. Paul did and see it for what it is—the Bride of Christ the Mother from whose womb of grace each of us was born to a new life a life of Sonship. (Mother M. Angelica, Foundress of EWTN)
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Dr. Iverna Tompkins
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