Mother's Day
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, because this is right. Honor your father and mother, which is the first commandment with a promise, so that it may go well with you and that you may have a long life in the land.
Today we are here to worship the Lord and honor our mothers. Not only are we commanded to honor our mothers; it’s the sensible and loving thing to do. Many of us here today are blessed to have our mother here or she maybe just a phone call away. Many wish we still had our mothers living so we could honor them, remember them and love them.
A six-year-old boy, separated from his mother in a supermarket, began to call frantically for “Martha! Martha! Martha!”
That was his mother’s name and she came running to him quickly. “But, honey,” she admonished, “you shouldn’t call me ‘Martha’, I’m ‘Mommy’ to you.” “Yes, I know,” he answered, “but this store is full of mommys.”
Pray
I want to share briefly three thoughts:
1- Her hands
2- Her mouth
3- Her heart
Her Hands
A boy got his first job. As he was boasting about the amount of work he did, he said, "I get up at 5 a.m. and have my breakfast." He was asked, "Does anyone else get up too?" He replied, "Oh yes, mother gets up and fixes my breakfast and then fixes dad’s breakfast."
"And what about your dinner?" The boy said, "Oh, mother, fixes that too."
"Does your mother have the afternoon to herself?" The boy replied, "No, mama cleans the house, looks after the other children, and then gets supper for me and dad when we come home. Then we watch TV before we go to bed."
"What about your mother? What does she do?" The boy replied, "Mama washes some clothes and irons the rest of the evening."
"Do you get paid?" "Of course, Dad and I get paid."
"And what about your mother, does she get paid too?"
The boy replied, "MOTHER, GET PAID?! MOTHER DON’T GET PAID. SHE DON’T DO NO WORK."
As your pastor and your friend, if you every think this way…the altar is open for repentance.
In Prov. 31, we see that mothers do all kinds of work.
"She selects wool...and works with eager hands."
"bringing her food from afar." get up while it is still dark" to prepare food.
"She plants a vineyard..."
"her lamp does not go out at night." "Man works from sun to sun, but woman’s work is never done."
Back in the day, my mom was an amazing cook. Matter of fact, I remember it so well that I told my Aunt to make sure no one took mom’s magnalite pots cause I wanted them. My mom would fix these meals, she would fix her plate, and then she would put the pots on the kitchen table and me and dad would sit down and tear it up.
Proverbs 31:27
She watches over the activities of her household
and is never idle.
She isn’t lazy.
Her Mouth
Preacher G. Campbell Morgan had four sons and they all became ministers of the gospel. At a family reunion, a friend asked one of the sons, "Who is the greatest preacher in the family?" While that son looked at his father, he replied, "MOTHER."
Moms are some of the greatest preachers. Many mothers have done a lot of preaching to their children, whether they considered it preaching or not.
Her mouth speaks wisdom,
and loving instruction is on her tongue.
Things my mom taught me
- My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
"If you’re going to act the fool, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."
- My mother taught me about RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."
- My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don’t straighten up, I’m going to knock you into the middle of next week!"
- My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you’re in an accident."
- My mother taught me IRONY.
"Keep crying, and I’ll give you something to cry about."
- My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."
- My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You’ll sit there until all that spinach is gone."
- My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."
- My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."
- My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"
- My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don’t have wonderful parents like you do."
- My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home"
- My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when you get home!"
- My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don’t stop crossing your eyes, the wind will change and you will stay like that."
- My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don’t eat your vegetables, you’ll never grow up."
- My mother taught me GENETICS.
"You are your fathers child."
- My mother taught me about my past.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"
- My mother taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you’ll understand."
- My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you’ll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"I bet most of us can remember something we learned from our moms. Cherish those teachings. We have looked at a moms hands and mouth, now ...
Her Heart
The heart of her husband trusts in her,
and he will not lack anything good.
She rewards him with good, not evil,
all the days of her life.
A grandmother was telling her granddaughter goodnight when the little girl said, "Mommy and daddy are entertaining some very important people downstairs."
"You’re right," grandma agreed, "BUT HOW DID YOU KNOW?"
"JUST LISTEN," the little granddaughter said, "MOMMY IS LAUGHING AT ALL OF DADDY’S JOKES."
Brethren, where there is a lot of laughter in a home, you just know that something good is happening in that home! AND, OF COURSE, THERE NEEDS TO BE MORE LAUGHTER IN THE HOME.
A joyful heart is good medicine,
but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
The unselfishness of a mother shows a heart of love for her family. And all of us can remember many unselfish acts of devotion our mamas made to our homes. And it extends out when the little chicks leave the nest.
and went and sat at a distance, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” While she sat at a distance, she wept loudly.
In this passage, Hagar had been kicked out of her home and was unable to provide for her young son. Her family was broken, her son might die, and she was powerless. As children grow older, mothers can often feel like they cannot control what happens to their children anymore. There comes a time in every mother's journey where she has to let go and give her children to God's care, even if it breaks your heart.
God heard Hagar in the desert, and He hears your cry for your children. Even when your heart is broken, you’re not alone.
Any mother would lay down her life for her children. When you give up your time, delay your dreams, work to provide for your children's future and spend hours on your knees praying for their safekeeping, you live the kind of sacrificial love Jesus demonstrated in His own life. That is the heart of a mom.
Her children rise up and call her blessed;
her husband also praises her:
Thomas Edison once said, “I did not have my mother long, but she cast over me an influence which has lasted all my life. The good effects of her early training I can never lose. If it had not been for her appreciation and her faith in me at a critical time in my experience, I should never likely have become an inventor. I was always a careless boy, and with a mother of different mental caliber, I should have turned out badly. But her firmness, her sweetness, her goodness, were potent powers to keep me in the right path. My mother was the making of me. The memory of her will always be a blessing to me.”
