Ways to Honor your Mother
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Introduction
The Bible has a much to say about motherhood and holds high the mantle of motherhood. In Genesis Eve is called the Mother of all the living. In Exodus children are commanded to obey mothers. Psalms and Proverbs teach us to listen and honor our mothers. Throughout the bible characters we fine strong and faithful mothers including Mary the mother of Jesus.
We also need to take motherhood serious and honor our mother today. Whether she is living or home with Jesus give her honor today. Mothers have shaped our world today.
Consider Susanna Wesley, mother of John and Charles Wesley. She bore nineteen children in twenty-one years. She lost ten of them. She taught her children until they were five years old. Every afternoon she took one child into the privacy of her room and there shared with the child the finer things of the Christian faith. Little wonder that from this home, came the dynamic founders and leaders of the Methodist Church.
G. Curtis Jones, 1000 Illustrations for Preaching and Teaching (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1986), 139.
Three ways to honor your mother:
1. Open your heart and blesses her ()
1. Open your heart and blesses her ()
Her children arise and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:
We must fine ways to acknowledge the benefits, the blessings, the sacrifice that our mother's have endure for us. Husband the statement "he praises her" can mean sing hallelujah... to make a show... to be clear.
The Hebrew word blessed means happy. Honor brings happiness to mom. The verb form of blessed is used to "declare someone happy" It is saying, Mom I am going to make you happy... I will live my life in a way to make you happy.
This passage is focused on the home to the children and father. Often husbands and children we are good at praising our wives and mothers in public, but do not praise them at home in private. Could it be that we like to look good in public and show our true heart in private. Bless your mom, your wife in private.
2. Open your mind and reward her ()
2. Open your mind and reward her ()
The Hebrew word blessed means happy. Honor brings happiness to mom. The verb form of blessed is used to "declare someone happy" It is saying, Mom I am going to make you happy... I will live my life in a way to make you happy.
This passage is focused on the home to the children and father. Often husbands and children we are good at praising our wives and mothers in public, but do not praise them at home in private. Could it be that we like to look good in public and show our true heart in private. Bless your mom, your wife in private.
Give her the reward she has earned,
and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
3198 Mother Charges Nothing
A mother found under her place one morning at breakfast a bill made out by her small son, Bradley, aged eight—Mother owes Bradley: for running errands, 25 cents; for being good, 10 cents; for taking music lessons, 15 cents; for extras, 5 cents. Total, 55 cents.
Mother smiled but made no comment. At lunch Bradley found the bill under his plate with 55 cents and another piece of paper neatly folded like the first. Opening it he read—Bradley owes Mother: for nursing him through scarlet fever, nothing; for being good to him, nothing; for clothes, shoes and playthings, nothing; for his playroom, nothing; for his meals, nothing. Total: nothing.
Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc., 1996), 756–757.
What has your mom earned?
1. Your respect - what you say, how you ask, what you do.
“I Thought of My Mother”
During our Dublin campaign, a young man came to me in great distress. He had been paying attention to a young lady, who was very worldly. He had been brought up under Christian influences, his mother being an great Christian woman. He told me that the preceding Sunday evening he had called upon the young lady in whom he was interested. Though it was Sunday evening, the girl’s mother proposed that they play cards. The young lady’s mother urged him to join in the game, but he refused. He said to me, “When I was invited to play cards on a Sunday evening, the thought came to me, ‘What if I should and my mother should hear of it. It would break her heart.’ ”
R. A. Torrey, Anecdotes and Illustrations (New York: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1907), 177–178.
2. Your ear! The right to speak into your life. Your mom most often knows you better than any one else. They also wants the best for there children. They have earned the right to speak into your life. Listen to your mom.
3. Your protection. The right to live in peace. Protect your mom... Do everything in your power to protect your mom. Your life should bring her peace. If you want to bless your mom (Make her happy) live that way.
3. Open your mouth and praise her ()
3. Open your mouth and praise her ()
Give her the reward she has earned,
and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.
The last way to honor you mother today is my sing her praise in publicly.
3616 Mother As Greatest Preacher
Dr. G. Campbell Morgan had four sons. They all became ministers. At a family reunion, a friend asked one of the sons, “Which Morgan is the greatest preacher?” While the son looked at the father, he replied, “Mother!”
Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc., 1996), 841.
My Mother
3621 The Statue Of Liberty
For the past ninety years the majestic statue “Liberty Enlightening the World” has towered above Bedlow Island, near the entrance to New York Harbor, as a symbol of the freedom which we enjoy here in America.
The famous sculptor, Bartholdi, gave twenty years of devoted effort to the work, personally superintending the raising of the subscription of $4,000,000 with which the French nation gave the statue to the United States. When the subscriptions lagged, Bartholdi pledged his own private fortune to defray the running expenses and practically impoverished himself over the work.
At the start, when Bartholdi looked for a model whose form and features he could reproduce as “Liberty,” he received much contradictory counsel. One of the leading art authorities advised him that the statue should depict “figures of thought which are grand in themselves.” After examining outstanding heroes, Bartholdi chose as a model for the colossal masterpiece—his own mother.
—Christian Victory
Paul Lee Tan, Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times (Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc., 1996), 842.
Not his wife, but his mother!