A Godly Mom In Desperate Times

A Godly Mom In Desperate Times

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WELL – today is Mother’s Day, happy Mother’s day to all the moms that are out there!

QUESTION – does anyone out there think that moms are awesome – amazing – incredible – wonderful - special?

Moms, please come up front…

OKAY TODAY – Mother’s day 2019, it is my honor and privilege (in a conversation called, ‘A Godly Mom In Desperate Times)

TO - talk about a pretty awesome…

A MOM who is a model and example not just for the MOMS in this room, but for anyone who wants to live a godly life

Her story is recorded in the first 2 chapters of the book of 1 Samuel.

AND LISTEN – this mom, Hannah…lived in a desperate time.

YOU SEE - she lived during that 300+ year period of time in between Joshua conquering the promise land and God’s people getting their first king. It is called the period of the Judges…

A period that God’s word summarizes in this way in the very last verse of Judges.

In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes. – Judges 21:25

NOW - Hannah’s story takes place during the final years of that period.

OKAY – here is how I want to unpack our conversation this morning…

BY WALKING THROUGH - her story in 1 Samuel (pretty much verse by verse) and pulling out several lessons and truths along the way, about living a godly life.

SO IF YOU - have your Bibles, go ahead and turn to 1 Samuel.

If you have a Bible app, open it up to 1 Samuel, because (like I said) we’re just going to walk through this Scripture narrative that is a story of a godly mom in a desperate time.

BECAUSE - one thing we know is that even on the day that we pause to celebrate the joy of motherhood…

WE STILL KNOW – without any doubt whatsoever that when it comes to desperation, MOMS get it.

YEAH – moms know what it’s like to feel worn out and to feel helpless and to feel uncertain and inadequate.

I MEAN… THERE’S - the endless crying and the sleepless nights,

AND THERE’S - the nonstop messes …AND the questions…

AND the discipline… AND the testing of boundaries…

AND the raging hormones…

AND – there’s this simultaneously begging for the day that they will grow up and move out, WHILE - at the same time never wanting that day to come and wishing their child could stay young forever.

YES IT’S - a blessing to be a mom, BUT it’s a blessing that oftentimes means being pushed to your physical, mental and emotional limits.

IT’S - sometimes feeling so alone and then sometimes wishing you were actually alone for just a few minutes of the day.

IT’S - doing everything you possibly can to raise your kids well BUT knowing that there’s just a lot you don’t control.

IT’S - the desperation for your kids to make wise decisions and knowing that you don’t get to make those for them.

IT’S - the endless mental comparisons that you know you shouldn’t make (can you say Facebook) BUT you just can’t seem to help it.

IT’S - the feelings of inadequacy where you’re giving your best…you really are. I MEAN - you’re giving it everything you have, BUT YET - there’s this nagging sense at the end of the day that it’s just not enough.

YES BEING A MOM – is all of those things and more.

AND THEN… IT’S - getting up and doing it again the next day.

YES - there can be a lot of desperation in motherhood.

AND – in 1 Samuel chapter 1 we meet Hannah.

NOW - she’s not yet a mother.

IN FACT - that’s part of her desperate situation.

She wants so bad to be a mom.

OKAY – let’s do this…

A godly mom in a desperate time.

AND LISTEN - as we look at the first two chapters of 1 Samuel, WE WILL SEE - 5 Defining Traits or Characteristics of a Godly Mom.

AND REMEMBER – like I said earlier these 5 truths apply to anyone who wants to live a godly life…

Prayer

I. A Godly Mom Experiences Real Problems

NOW - as 1 Samuel opens up we begin to find out some things about this family…

There was a man named Elkanah who lived in Ramah in the region of Zuph in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, of Ephraim.

Elkanah had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah did not. – 1 Samuel 1:1,2