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Another Mother’s Day has rolled around.
And as always, I am challenged to preach a message to group of people that I do not relate to.
I am not a mom.
I am not a woman.
However, I know that being a mom is hard.
I use the word “mom” loosely.
I am speaking to those who are mothers, grandmothers, great-grandmothers.
I am speaking to those who do not have children of their own, but who have spiritual children.
I am speaking to those who yearn to have children, but do not.
Those who had children and suffered their loss.
Those whose children moved away and those whose children are still at home.
I am speaking to mom’s who stayed at home and mom’s who worked.
No matter the situation, being a mom is hard.
I think about what Paul wrote in Galatians:
Being a mom is hard, and somedays a mom grows weary in doing good good.
Sometimes Paul’s exhortation in Thessalonians is pointed at moms.
There are some days, after I wrap up my sermon prep or my hospital visitations and I come home.
I walk through the door, and I am immediately confronted by screams.
On child runs up to me, telling me all the horrible things the sibling did, while the other child is reciprocating the favor.
I get this convoluted stories about the evils of the day, and I turn to Maggie and her hair is poofed out, her eyes are wide, and she has this look of “finally, you’re home.”
Being a mom, is hard.
No matter the situation or level of mom-hood you are at, do not grow weary in doing good.
Have endurance.
Our text for today is not in Galatians or 2 Thessalonians.
Our text is Romans
pray
Moms, have endurance.
The God of Endurance
In this verse, we see the God of endurance.
He is described as the one who gives endurance.
He can give endurance, because that is one of his attributes.
Over and over again, in the OT, God is described as enduring.
We see God’s enduring love
in 1 Chronicles
David is teaching the priests a song to sing in celebration of the Ark of the Covenant finally coming to Jerusalem.
It had been captured by the Philistines because of King Saul’s sins.
After some time, it was returned to the Israelites, but it was never brought back to the capital of Israel because of Israel’s sins.
Finally, after a period of repentance, the people of Israel return the Ark to the capital in the way that God had told them to, and they sing about God’s enduring love.
How do they know about God’s enduring love?
Because they saw it firsthand and they hear about it from their parents and their grandparents, so also saw it firsthand.
They were the nation who God rescued out of Egypt, and who continually complained against God and rebelled against his rules.
But, God had made a covenant of love with Israel, and he never turned away from that covenant, no matter what Israel did.
His love endured forever.
We see God’s enduring righteousness.
The standard which God sets by his character never changes.
He always does what is right, no matter who he is dealing with.
In this Psalm, the writer discusses the work of creation.
He talks about God’s provision for his people.
He reflects on God’s judgement on his enemies and those who act against him.
He mentions God’s redemption based upon his covenant.
The people of Israel saw this.
When they turned from God, they knew his righteousness when he brought discipline to them, to the point of kicking them out of the land.
But, when they repented, he restored them back, providing everything that they needed.
Ultimately, the people of Israel saw God’s righteousness as Jesus hung on the cross, the righteous for the unrighteous, that all who believed might have life in his name.
God’s righteousness demands judgment.
Some of that judgment is temporary in a form of discipline.
Some is eternal in the form of hell.
That is the righteous judgment that Jesus fulfilled.
God’s enduring love.
His enduring righteousness.
We see God’s enduring faithfulness
Psalm 117 is one of the shortest psalms, incidentally, but the message is powerful.
The Psalmist says that God’s ability to be trusted endures forever.
The word faithfulness, or trustworthiness, speaks of firmness or certainty.
Picture an infant in the arms of their parent.
The infant is resting, peacefully, because they feel safe.
When the infant is given to someone else, the infant does not safe anymore and starts to scream.
As the infant grows up, it still wants to be carried, one because it is lazy, but two because there is a desire for that safety.
When a child gets hurt, it immediately runs to the parent, because there is safety and comfort in the face of helplessness.
God is faithful.
His strong arms bear us up with firmness and certainty.
When the kid grows up, he reaches a point where his parents are not strong enough anymore.
And he has to bear himself.
Thankfully, God is always faithful.
He can always be trusted, no matter what we are going through.
No matter if we don’t understand it.
He is faithful: he will not let us down.
God’s love endures.
His righteousness endures.
His faithfulness endures.
We see God’s enduring Law
We could look at Isaiah
And discuss how God’s Word, the Bible, endures forever, but we are going to focus on the term “Law.”
God’s Law endures forever.
This law includes the Law of Moses, but it is more expansive than that.
It speaks of God’s moral code since the beginning of creation.
It is the standard that God calls all humans to live by.
Those who do not meet that standard we call sinners.
The Psalmist says that God’s law endures.
It does not change.
It perseveres, in spite of all humanity tries to do.
The Israelites kept saying: “Oh, God doesn’t care.
I want to do my own thing.
The nations around are worshipping other gods: we can to.
The nations around are using prostitutes for worship: we can to.
The nations around are killing their children: we can too.
The nations around have changed their tithe and offering requirements: we can to.”
We as humans so often look at the Bible, what it clearly says, and we try to change it.
We say: “oh, that was just cultural.
Oh, the word doesn’t actually mean that.
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