God Will Be "As The Dew” (Mother’s Day)

Today is Mother’s Day and rather than reciting a bunch of poems, stories and etc. I asked the Lord to give me a special sermon that would help our mothers and grandmothers to make it through life!

This church today would not be here if it was not for all the good mothers here and those who have gone to be with the Lord.

They are not like the (mother) homemaker that I heard about recently…

Illus: A woman went with her husband to the doctor’s office. When the checkup was over, the doctor asked the man to wait outside so he could talk to the wife.

He had a very somber look on his face and asked her to sit down, “Your husband is suffering from a very severe stress disorder. If you don’t do what I ask, he is not going to make it.

Here’s what I want you to do.

Get up early each morning and fix him a healthy breakfast. Make him a nutritious lunch and prepare a really special dinner every night. Be pleasant at all times. Don’t burden him with chores or discuss your problems with him. You will need to do all the work around the house. And, you can’t nag him about anything. If you can do this for several years your husband will completely regain his health.”

• As they were driving home, the husband turned to his wife and asked, “What did the doctor say to you?”

• To which she replied, “He said you’re not going to make it!”

In our text today, Hosea uses a beautiful metaphor of a mother name Naomi to show us how the Lord blesses His people.

In this beautiful metaphor, He says, "I will be as the dew unto Israel".

Now I realize I am taking this verse of scriptures out of context but I believe what He said to them also applies to us as believers.

Now, ordinarily we do not think much about dew, and if we do think about it, we certainly do not compare it to our relationship with God.

In fact, we do not see a lot of good in dew.

• The ladies generally do not like it because it takes the curls out of their hair.

• The men generally dislike dew because it causes our shoes to get wet when we walk on wet grass.

• Also before they had permanent press clothes, we men disliked it because it took the crease out of our pants.

We generally do not think of dew in a POSITIVE WAY.

Let us see what God had in mind when He said, “I will be as the dew unto Israel.”

Before we can appreciate this metaphor we need to consider the definition of dew.

Illus: Dew is a deposit of water droplets, formed at night by the condensation of water vapor from the air, onto the surface of objects exposed to the sky.

Dew forms on clear nights when the air is calm or winds are light.

The process that produces the dew begins as the sun begins to set and night begins to fall. Objects exposed to the open air cool faster than the air around them, and if it is sufficiently humid, water vapor condenses out of the air and covers the object.

Now with this in mind, what did God mean when He said in Hosea 14:5, "I will be like the dew to Israel"?

The explanation has to do with the definition of what dew is and how it forms.

For example-

I. DEW COMES IN THE STILLNESS OF NIGHT

Remember the definition of dew, “Dew forms on clear nights when the air is calm or winds are light.”

You will seldom find dew on a windy night.

Our society knows very little about stillness. We live in a fast paced world!

Illus: We all at times feel that we are on a merry go round that is going faster and faster and we can not get off!!!

It seems like as a child that Christmas came every sixteen months but today in this fast pace world it seems like Christmas comes every six months.(And our birthdays come even faster!!!)

I don’t know how many times I ask people, “How are you doing?” and the answer is “Busy! Busy! Busy!”.

I’m not asking people how busy they are…I genuinely want to know ‘how’ they are doing.

That doesn’t have a lot to do with how busy they are, really.

This obsession with being ‘busy’ is, actually, one convenient way of saying please do not ask me to do anything I have to much on my plate already!!!

Living in this fast pace world has gotten a lot of folks in trouble.

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.