Momma’s Boy

September 20, 2005 · Filed Under theology

I am a “momma’s boy.”

Those who know me and my mom have no doubt as to the truth of that description of me. Piper men tend to be like that — my dad was with my grandmother, and my son is most definitely the “momma’s boy” apple of his mother’s eye!

Vicar Chaz Lehmann, however, has waxed eloquent on another, far more significant, way in which being a “momma’s boy” is a very good thing. For a Christian, there is no higher (or truer) complement than to be called a “momma’s boy”! Thanks to Jesus’s atoning work on the cross, we have been made a part of the family. Baptism joins us to Jesus. Where Jesus was begotten of the Father, we then become Begotten by the Father. And where the Father chose Mary to bear the God-Man Jesus, He so chose His Church to bear us through the waters of Baptism.

Yup, being a momma’s boy rocks!

-ghp

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