This mothers day we would like to honor our moms one way that we honor our moms no matter how old we are is the way that we treat our mom.
Becoming a mom changed your moms life. A mother is an amazing job, the most overworked and underpaid position in the world, like all of you I have a mom and when I am around her I feel like I am 12years old, she still buys me cookies.
And I also have the privilege of being married to mom and observing how my two sons and daughter respond to her. See the boys fall and get hurt and cry for their mommy or pick dandelions from the yard and give them to my wife as gift it reminds me of the special and safe place to be and the place that every child has for the mommy in the heart.
The intuition of a mom is amazing and I already see it in my daughter… everything is a baby and babies have babies, she desires to do housework and cook.
Often times we think about what impact our moms have on us but tonight I want to talk about impact you can have on your mom.
The bible teaches many things about how to treat or moms and tonight I want to focus in on 4 ways the Proverbs guide us into ways to treat or moms in order to have an impact on them.
1. Proverbs 1:8 what is the “law of your mother” you may think it is just… “moms rules” illustration
There is much more to that and chances are from a young age your mom taught or modeled love, compassion, mercy, kindness, patience and if she did not I am sure her intentions were to. Regardless, the bible teaches these things so when we look to our moms we should treat them in the manner in which they would want to be treated.
When we do what is wrong and don’t obey there are consequences Proverbs 30:17 read and
Bottom line is the consequences of living in disobedience are not fun.
So don’t turn your back on the way you mother would want you to treat others or her
2. Proverbs 10:1 The next passage is actually not about how you treat your mom directly but how you live your life will affect how your mom feels.
Sometimes the foolish things we do embarrass our moms like the little girl in the grocery store that her mom was pregnant went up to a man that had a rather large belly and said “my mommy has a baby in her belly too, when is yours going to be born?”
But many times the things that we do and say break our mothers hearts because like Jesus our mom wants good for us and they know that doing the right thing is good for us and regardless of how successful in life we are our moms want us to have a good life and practice what they taught us.
Don’t bring grief to her, challenge, call your mom make things right, maybe you have tried and it is not working. Pray for her
3. Proverbs 23:22 One of two things can happen when you get older, either you age with grace and you become sweeter and more humble or you age with disgrace and you get meaner and grouchier. Much of that depends how you handle what life has dealt out to you.
Ruth Loving Naomi
Love your mother when she is old, even if she put nothing in let her get something out of you because you love Jesus
4. Proverbs 23:25 why would your mom rejoice in you?
2 John1 :4-5 Rejoice in people walking in truth. I am sure it makes your mom happy when you tell the truth. How much more does she want you to know the truth? So what is the Truth? Moms dads sons daughters the Truth is Jesus
Even if we have blown it as a child or as a parent Jesus forgives and in the next life it will be impossible to blow it.
To all you kids young and old God is the mother that you never had “long to gather like a mother hen gathers her chicks”
To all you moms, we love you, we pray for you and we want you to love Jesus so that can spill over into your children’s lives.
Happy Mothers Day!
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