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A Happy Mom a Happy Home

Proverbs 31:10-31

 

*/Ann Landers/* said, "It's high time someone took on the free swinging feminists who have decided for everyone that the married woman who stays home is a brass plate dummy, a lazy three toed sloth or a trader to her Radcliff graduating class.

Why has the American woman been made to feel ashamed because she is at home cleaning, washing and ironing, and taking care of her own children?

This was once considered nobel and gratifying work.

We're told that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world … the nesting instinct is a normal and lovely thing, and most women marry, because they want more than   anything in the world to be wives, homemakers and mothers.

This is not adolescent hogwash or sloppy sentimentalism, it is real, it is what [being a] woman is all about there's no special magic about a paid job, a great many women who have left jobs, good jobs, insist that the business world is dull and confining, compared with running a home and raising a family.

… So much has been written about the educated woman's obligation to society, to do something with her education, that one gets the impression that the college graduate who stays home is copping out.

I believe that the reverse is closer to the truth.

In my opinion, life's classic cop outs are the women who have advocated their responsibilities to their husbands and children, and to society, because they lack the maturity to stay at home and do the job they bargained for.

To be a successful housewife and mother, demands infinitely more emotional balance and moral fiber than is required to hold down a job.

Chauffeur, maid, cook, referee,   philosopher, rescue squad, hostess, tutor, and psychiatrist*, put them all together and they all spell mother*.

She must be equal to every crisis imaginable.

She must expect the unexpected, the child who falls down stairs and cracks his head open, the flooded basement, the busted oil heater, the minor and major battles among her children, coping with these emergencies is the   real challenge.

How much easier to wiggle into a girdle and beat it out the house in the morning.

That's what millions of American women are doing, and the kids show it."

God's picture of an  * ideal* wife and mother.

the Maximum Mom.

I heard about some cows who were out grazing in a field and they saw a milk truck go by and on the side of that milk truck it said something about the name of the dairy and then it began to advertise the milk.

And it said that the milk was pasteurized, homogenized, sanitized, vitamin enriched .One of the cows said to the other one, "it makes you feel inadequate.

Doesn't it?"

Proverbs 31:10f uses Hebrew alphabet.

This maximum mom, this mom from "A" to "Z", if we were to use English letters rather than Hebrew letters, the mom from "A" to "Z".

*/We would find out that she is a home maker/*.

I want you to see that when God just takes a woman that surpasses them all, He idealizes that woman as a mother and a homemaker.

Now, with that in mind, get out your Bible, open it in your lap, and let's just take this passage apart verse by verse.

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I.    HER GREAT WORTH.

(Proverbs 31:10-12)

!! A.  Virtue."

A wife of noble character?

She is worth far more than rubies."

Rubies = the inner glow

!! B.  A woman who fears the Lord (Proverbs 31:30) 

!! C.  And the word virtue here really means moral strength.

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*/Illustration:/*  Book of virtue introduction

!! D.  Her husband has full confidence in her (Proverbs 31:11) 

!!! 1.  Honest

!!! 2.  Wise

!!! 3.  Loyal

!!! 4.  Prudent

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*/Illustration:/*  You can trust her with the bank account, you don't have to worry about foolish expenditures and selfish demands.

Someone wrote these words, /their's was a perfect marriage, but for one feminine flaw, he was fast on the deposit, but she was quicker on the draw/.

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II.

HER GOOD WORKS.

(Proverbs 31:13-15)

!! A.

Not all glamour, chauffeur, maid, cook, referee, philosopher, rescue squad, hostess, tutor, psychiatrist, put them all together, she said, and they spell mother.

!! B.   The New American Standard “not only does she do it willingly she does it in delight."

she is doing it as unto the Lord.

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*/Illustration:/* Mrs. Billy Graham has written above her kitchen   sink, "Divine services held here three times a day," she's taking about when she's washing dishes.

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*/Illustration/*   I heard about one of these working women whose husband complained he wanted a hot breakfast.

She gave him a match and said, "set your corn-flakes on fire."

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III.

HER GENUINE WISDOM, (Proverbs 31:16-18)

!! A.   She has financial wisdom.

(Proverbs 31:16)

!!! 1.

Not at the expense of the home,

!!! 2.   An extension of the home.

!!!! a)  Independent spirit from your husband?

!!!! b)  Competition with your husband? 

!! B.    She has physical wisdom.

(Proverbs 31:17)  She knows how to take care of her   body.

!!! 1.    She's into aerobics.

!!! 2.

She knows how to eat right.

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She knows how to exercise.

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She knows how to take care of herself.

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She doesn't let herself go.

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*/Illustration/* You know, some women say, I'm already married.

So why chase a street car after you've caught it?

Well, I want to tell you lady, you'd be very wise if you keep yourself physically right.

!! C.

She has genuine wisdom; (Proverbs 31:18) she studies "She sees that her merchandise is good.

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IV.

HER GENEROUS WELFARE.

(Proverbs 31:19-20) 

!! A.    This woman has learned some real skills.

!! B.    Her skills benefit others

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V.  HER GRAND WARDROBE/   /(Proverbs 31:21-22)

!! A.    Fashion conscious.

(Not a washer woman.)

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*/Illustration:/* Family class at Liberty, on dress.

Sweats and grubs.

Dressing up for work but slobs at home and they wonder why their husband is running around on them.

!! B.    Function conscious …snow... (here is a   woman who has dressed her children warmly)

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/VI.

/HER GIFTED WIFE-HOOD/ /(Proverbs 31:23-25)

!! A.    Now she is to her husband, a help meet.

!! B.    She is a completer, enhancer to her husband.

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*/Illustration/*:  Somebody has well said,   "Behind every good man there is a good woman, and a surprised mother-in-law."

a   woman is to a man, listen ladies, a woman is to a man what a wind is to a fire.

She can fan it up or blow it out.

!! C.    She's a business woman (Proverbs 31:24)

!! D.    She has a calm and gentle spirit.

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VII.

HER GRACIOUS WORDS.

(Proverbs 31:26-27) 

!! A.    Control of her tongue.

!! B.    Why she's not screeching at her kids, wining at her husband?

!!! 1.    She's already been up early in the morning

!!! 2.    Her life is well ordered.