Mother's Day 2021

Mother’s Day 2021

Good morning CHURCH!

How many of you are ready to be equipped today?

(I made slight changes to the confession)

Do you have your Bibles with you?

Faith Confession.

I believe that God’s words are the most powerful and creative force that exist.

I believe the Bible is a collection of writings to us, inspired by God.

The Bible says that I was created in the image and likeness of God.

In order to know who I am and what I should be like,

I have to know the God of the Bible.

This Week’s Wisdom Vaccination

Proverbs 6:20-22 NIV

My son, keep your father’s command and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 21 Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck. 22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.

There is of course something assumed about your parents teachings.

Intro:

Mother’s Day can be an exciting day for some and a trying day for others. (Mothers alive and mothers have passed. Mothers were good to us and mothers that were not.)

One hundred and seven years ago, in 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, as a national holiday to be held on the second Sunday in May, to honor mothers for the many sacrifices they make for their children.

It’s pretty sad that in most cases throughout society we see the responsibility of nurturing a child be the sole responsibility of the mother.

And this is despite most of them working full time jobs as well.

Mothers are a special breed.

It is a mother who gives birth to a child and has a special connection and nurtures that child and thinks the best of that child no matter what.

And none of us would be here without a mother. A woman who gave us birth.

Although Mother’s Day is not something we celebrate from the scriptures but something we do in our society, the Bible says some key things about mom.

Genesis 3:20 NIV

Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all the living.

Proverbs 23:25 NIV

May your father and mother rejoice; may she who gave you birth be joyful!

There is something special in the giving of birth.

A special connection that mother’s have for their children that fathers know nothing about.

Proverbs 1:8-9 NIV

Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 9 They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

Solomon is likening her instructions to that of the status we think of when we see royalty wearing a crown/Teairra and a classy set of jewels around the neck.

Her instructions should be seen as treasure’s.

Mothers are so often responsible for teaching us so much throughout our life.

In this fallen family society where more homes are single parent homes than ever before, the large majority of them are mothers who have been hurt by a man and now that he has left, she often picks up the pieces of the broken family and raises that child/children.

That mother’s teachings should be treasured and honored.

We saw through scripture that Jesus was very fond of his mother.

John 19:26-27 NIV

When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

Seeing her sorrow Jesus honored His mother by assigning her into the care of John, the beloved disciple.

His brothers and sisters were probably still in Galilee, and not in a position to care for or comfort her.

I think about the passage in Luke 2:41-45 where Jesus was 12 years old and finally went on the pilgrimage with the family to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover in the temple.

Luke 2:41-45 NIV

Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem, but they were unaware of it. 44 Thinking he was in their company, they traveled on for a day. Then they began looking for him among their relatives and friends. 45 When they did not find him, they went back to Jerusalem to look for him.

I can just picture Jesus’ mother Mary being like the mother in the movie Home Alone.

I wanted to include something from Proverbs 31 on this Mother’s Day service and as I read it, I was inspired to write a poem.

A poem to our mothers.

Oh how we love our mothers. For she speaks with wisdom on her lips, like honey on my fingertips.

The faithful instructions that flow from her tongue, have definitely guided my life ever since day one.

She’s even a protector. She watches everything that goes on in her house, from a weird noise outside to the tiny steps of a mouse.

Mother never seems to run out of things to do for us, and even though we could never pay her back, she doesn’t put up a fuss.

Her children run to her with a smile on their face daily; she never lets them see her stress over how she’s going to feed her babies.

A wise husband praises her efforts and celebrates her with love and care, because in her absence he most certainly knows, he fails to compare.

Many women do great things, but a mother surpasses them all;

without a true mother it’s no doubt the entire family will fall.

Her charm may be deceptive and beauty fleeting; but a mother who fears the Lord is definitely a wife worth keeping.

So today, let’s honor our mothers for all they have done, and even if she wasn’t all that I said in this poem, without her birthing you into this world, you would have never seen day one.

Let’s all give a standing ovation to Mother. For she is like non other.

Inspired by Proverbs 31:26-31

In closing, I promise you that if your mother was not able to live up to those standards it’s not because she didn’t want to.

It’s because something went on in her life that scarred her and hurt her and stripped away her identity.

Please have empathy for her.

Extend her some grace and mercy.

Pray for her often and believe the best is still available if she is still in the land of the living.

1 What is Holy Spirit saying to you right now?

Incorporate the viewing audience and then bid them fare well.

Turn the service over briefly to the M.C.

Move into Family Talk

Proverbs 31:26-31 NIV

She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue. 27 She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. 28 Her children arise and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: 29 “Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all.” 30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. 31 Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.