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Show Mother’s Day Video
Happy Mother’s Day - Welcome … Intro mom.
Too often, we don’t give moms credit for what they do...
**A man comes home from work one day and finds his three children outside playing in the mud STILL wearing their pajamas.
The door of his wife’s car is open and the front door to the house is standing wide open……and there is no sign of the family dog.
--Entering the house, he finds an even bigger mess.
A lamp has been knocked over.
In the front room the TV is loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and the family room is covered with toys and various items of clothing.
--In the kitchen, dishes fill the sink, breakfast food is spilled on the counter, the fridge door is open wide, and dog food is spilled all over the floor.
--He quickly heads up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife.
He is worried that she is ill or hurt.
--On his way up the steps he is met with a trickle of water coming out of the upstairs bathroom.
Inside the bathroom he can see wet towels stacked high, a mile of wet toilet paper and toothpaste smeared all over the mirror and walls.
--As he rushes into the bedroom he finally finds his wife…..still curled up with her pajamas on and reading a novel.
She looks up at him, smiles, and asks him how his day has gone.
--He looks at her bewildered and asks, “What happened here today?”
She again smiled and answers, “You know every day when you come home from work and you ask me what in the world I do all day long?
Well, today I did not do any of what I normally do, so you could see.”
We need to honor our moms today… without them we would not be even house broken…
We have been studying Mercy and no one shows more mercy than Moms.
So today we are going to look at Showing Mercy to Your Family.
The sad fact is that one of the places we struggle the most to show mercy is at home… nice to strangers but hard on those we love.
arguing when the phone rings and we answer … hello real sweet.
What happened?
We controlled our anger and treated someone outside of our family nicer than we did our family.
Does it bother you that often we treat those we love meaner than anyone else?
Maybe you identify with David…
You may think you are loving, but It’s hard to show mercy to those who are closest to us.
Here is a test to see how you are doing.
How Merciful am I To My Family?
When My Spouse or Children Gets Some Details Wrong when they are telling a story, do I (1) Interrupt them and correct them publically?
or (2) Say Nothing and let it go, knowing I’ve done the same?
When My Spouse or Children Keeps making the same mistake over and over again, do I (1) become bitter and angry?
(2) Graciously forgive them and pray for them?
When My Spouse or siblings are getting more attention than I think they deserve, do I (1) feel resentful and feel the need to bring them down a notch?
or (2) celebrate with them?
When My Spouse or Children says something I don’t understand, do I (1) assume they have the best motivation for doing it?
or (2) Question their motivation and think the worst?
Am I more polite with strangers than my own family?
We have been saying for the last few weeks that Mercy is actually love in action.
It’s a choice you make.
Whatever is true about love is true about mercy.
Paul lists out 15 characteristics of Love… but we are not going to look at all of them.
Four Ways to Show Mercy At Home
WE CAN SHOW MERCY AT HOME BY OVERLOOKING IRRITATIONS & OFFENSES.
IOW we ignore the irritations.
You will have irritations, but you can choose to ignore them.
Real Love does not become easily angered.
Anger is misunderstood by most.
It’s not a sin to become angry… Jesus became angry.
There are some things that we should be angry about.
When God sees people getting hurt, He gets angry.
There is a righteous anger and there is a selfish anger.
When we see people being wronged (prejudice, child abuse, spousal abuse), it should make us angry.
We just need to get angry and express it correctly.
You may think you never get angry, but you are just stuffing it down and it will come back up at some point.
So people tend to blow up or to clam up.
Both are not good ways to express anger.
You have to control your anger.
The Bible also says a lot about uncontrolled anger.
Uncontrolled anger will cause foolish things to happen in your life.
Antidote for Anger - Love and Mercy
It actually shows maturity if you overlook an offense.
People who cannot over look offenses are immature.
People who overlook offenses…IOW it just rolls off their shoulders… thats maturity.
When you start to get angry… ask.
Three Questions to ask Yourself when You are Angry
1.
Why am I Angry?
You need to know whats actually going on.
2. What do I Really Want?
3. How Can I Get It?
You will never get it clamming up or blowing up.
You will never have the marriage you want… the relationships… Remember… Love is not easily angered.
Here’s a good verse
Look for the best in each other.
If we would just practice this one thing… wow.
We would have better relationships… marriages… friendships…
Moms are pros at overlooking offenses.
2. WE CAN SHOW MERCY AT HOME BY BEING KIND WHEN THEY DON’T DESERVE IT.
In every family, there are…
VDP - VERY DRAINING PEOPLE
Don’t look at them…
Four Kinds of VDP’s
1. DIFFICULT PEOPLE
Difficult people are hard to work with… to live with.
They are irresponsible… immature … demanding …
2. DEMEANING PEOPLE
There are people who put others down...
3. DISAPPOINTING PEOPLE
People break promises.
4. DESTRUCTIVE PEOPLE
There are people who are abusive and mean… who hurt people.
How do you deal with these kinds of people?
Are you always supportive? Are you patient?
Basically, if you want to be patient with anybody, learn what makes them tick.
If you understand their fears, you will be more patient with them.
If you understand their hurts, you will be more patient with them.
Typically, we look at people, we usually look at how far they have to go, but when we look at how far they have come, we will be a lot more patient with them.
When we have wisdom, we are a lot more patient with them.
Solomon doesn’t say do goo to those you want to do good to.
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