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Happy Mothers Day
ILLUS: Abraham Lincoln said, ''No one is poor who had a godly mother.''
He went on to say, ''I remember my mother's prayers, and they have followed me; they have clung to me all my life.
All that I am and hope to be I owe to my angel mother.''
A Timeless Treasure
Psalm 22
Have you ever thought about all of the roles that your mother filled while you were growing up?
I just jotted down a few this week - and this list is by no means exhaustive.
Nurse, counselor, spiritual advisor, educator, nutritionist, accountant, transportation center, maid, peacemaker, entertainer, and I came up with those in just a few minutes.
There are so many other roles that our mothers fulfill each and every day.
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Beginning of the sermon
This Sunday is Mother's Day it’s a wonderful day.
They say more phone calls are placed on Mother’s day than any other day of the year.
Yesterday is the day in which you can see card stores full of people most of which would never actually go to a card shop in the first place so that they can get just the right card for mom.
At the same time, I know that Mother's Day can be a very difficult day for some of you.
For lots of different reasons.
Maybe your mother is no longer alive, and you really miss her.
Or maybe you don't have a very good relationship with your mother.
Or maybe you'd love to be a mother, and that just hasn't happened.
So I want to be sensitive to that today.
Today is a day to celebrate the role women play in our lives.
Some of us its our mothers.
Some of us it’s a great friend.
An aunt.
Or whatever there is no doubting that mom figures come in many different forms.
so I thought you'd enjoy this list of things our mothers taught us:
My Mother taught me LOGIC: ''If you fall off that swing and break your neck, you can't go to the store with me,'' as well as, ''If everyone else jumped off a cliff would you do it too?''
My Mother taught me HUMOR: ''When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me.''
My Mother taught me GENETICS: ''You are just like your father!''
My Mother taught me ANTICIPATION: ''Just wait until your father gets home.''
My Mother taught me about RECEIVING: ''You are going to get it when I get you home.''
My Mother taught me RELIGION: ''You better pray that will come out of the carpet.''
My Mother taught me about STAMINA: ''You'll sit there until all that spinach is finished.''
My Mother taught me THE CIRCLE OF LIFE: ''I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.''
And the all time favorite thing my Mother taught me, JUSTICE: ''One day you will have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you.
Then you'll see what it's like!
I can't wait!''
And I did.
It took 4 tries but I think I have finally received a little blessing that is just about as challenging as I was.
Jase
As I searched this week for a fresh idea to bring you for mother’s day I finally came to the realization that there really is not much fresh bread when it comes to mother’s day.
However this week I came across a fresh passage to me and I really like the message it shares.
So I would like to share it with you. .
Read the first few verses.
This is a Psalm of David as he is crying out to the Lord in the midst of his struggles.
More than likely dealing with the result of the sin of adultery with Bathsheba.
In which he suffers the loss of his child.
His family is at war within itself and he flees the kingdom.
At that moment the world was crumbling around him.
This Psalm is also a messianic Psalm in which it reflects the suffering of Christ upon the cross.
So Pastor how exactly does this refer to Mother’s day.
Being a mom is tuff stuff.
I am man enough to admit it ladies you have it rough.
Your jobs are never done.
There are no time clocks to punch in and out on.
Even when your sick you still have work to do.
James Dobson tells the story of a mother who was sick in bed.
She had the flu.
And her little daughter wanted so much to be a good nurse.
So she brought mom an extra pillow, and she brought her a magazine to read.
And then she even showed up with a surprise cup of tea.
And her mother took a sip of the tea, and she said, ''Wow!
I didn't even know you knew how to make tea!''
And the girl said, ''Oh, yes.
I learned by watching you.
I put some water in the pot, and then I put the tea leaves in, and I boiled the water, and then I strained it into a cup.
But I couldn't find the strainer, so I used the flyswatter instead.''
And her mother said, ''You what?!''
And the girl said, ''Oh, don't worry, mom.
I didn't use the new flyswatter; I used the old one.''
Gross
Even though it may be tough it is the most rewarding calling to speak truth into a life.
To model faith to a child.
Here in this Psalm David is in despair.
It looks like he is being swallowed up by the earth.
But yet he still has faith.
Look with me at verses .
Talking to God, David says “Yet you brought me out of the womb; you made me trust in you even at my mother’s breast.
From birth I was cast upon you; from my mother’s womb you have been my God.”
Notice, the psalmist doesn’t talk about the faith he gained at his FATHER’S knee.
Noooo, David is telling us – about the depth of his faith he found when he was with his mother.
ILLUS: There was a recent study reported in the October 2004 issue of “Psychological Science” that showed that Children who have the good fortune to interact with their mothers a lot develop healthier consciences.
In that article they said that toddlers were encouraged to imitate their mothers while they played.
They were graded on how they played nicely etc.
Then they were enticed to be bad cheat and break toys etc.
What the researchers found was that toddlers who eagerly imitated their mothers were more likely to follow the rules and were more likely to exhibit a sense of guilt when they broke something.
One person (commenting on that research) stated that God has placed our conscience within us to monitor our behavior.
The conscience is like a thermostat, but mothers apparently help us define the settings.
There are things that children learn from their mothers - that they cannot learn anywhere else.
Here in , David is telling us how critical his mother’s influence was for him.
· He tells how life had become almost unbearable for him.
He’s been rejected and people have mocked him.
He has seen and experienced how unfair life can be.
And ultimately he’s come to believe that God wasn’t near to him anymore.
That maybe God had even left him.
He’s filled with despair and hopelessness… and his world is falling to pieces around him.
It’s in the midst of his misery he remembers the lessons he learned from his mother.
And what might he have learned from his momma?
Well, says that “From (his) birth (he) was cast upon (God)”.
David’s mother raised him to know God.
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