Mother's Day

She might be somewhat prejudiced, but next to God she knows her child better than anyone else.

But Mothers are not perfect because sometimes in their assessment of their child, they may be wrong.

Let me illustrate…

• A picture of George Washington’s head is on the front of every dollar bill. But when George was a child, his mother told him constantly, “Georgie you do not have a head for money."

• Charles Lindberg was the first man to fly across the Atlantic alone, but his mother often said to him, “Charles, can't you do anything by yourself?"

• Neil Armstrong's mother often said, "Neil has no more business taking flying lessons than the man in the moon."

Mothers can be wrong about some things when it comes to their child, but Mothers are noted for their love for their children.

Illus: The mother of one of our President’s was asked, “You must be proud of your son?” She said, “Which one?”

Illus: Preacher G. Campbell Morgan had four sons and they all became ministers of the gospel. At a family reunion, a friend asked one of the sons, "Which Morgan is the greatest preacher?"

While that son looked at his father, he replied, "MOTHER."

Many mothers have done a lot of preaching to their children, whether they considered it preaching or not.

All the greatness that you see in the world today can be traced back to Motherhood.

• This is why the devil is robbing the homes of our Mothers, and putting them into the work force.

Why?

• Because he knows that if he can get the mothers out of the home, and place the children in front of the televisions sets, and let this Hollywood crowd raise their children, we will have the problems we are having today.

• Satan knows that if we allow our children to be taught about sex, morality and patriotism in the education system we will have the problems we are having today.

In Proverbs 31 we are given a picture of what appears to be the perfect woman.

Illus: Years ago, the beautiful Bo Derek the actress was known as a ten.

That is, if you rated women with certain physical features from 1 to 10, she was classified as a ten.

But in Proverbs 31, God shows us what he considers to be the perfect woman.

Let’s look at some of the things that this chapter talks about a WOMAN PERFECT IN THE EYES OF GOD.

That is, the first thing we want to consider is...

I. HER ABILITIES

Look at verse 10. We read, “Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.”

Look at the word “Virtuous.” This is the word “Chayil,” which means SUBSTANCE.

Let me illustrate what I mean when we use the word SUBSTANCE!!!

For example, have you ever tried to find out the truth about something that has taken place, from some of these politicians?

Illus: They can talk for ten to fifteen minutes, and when they are through talking, you still do not know any more than you did to start with.

Why?

Because, their conversation does not have any substance to it. They only speak empty, meaningless words. They are only empty suits!!!

They do not have the slightest idea what they are talking about.

And similarly we have mothers today who do not have the slightest idea about what it is to be a VIRTUOUS MOTHER.

But when it comes to these GODLY MOTHERS pardon me for being so country but she is filled with some GOOD STUFF!!!

Let me share with you what kind of STUFF I am talking about. Proverbs chapter 31 tells us…

A. SHE GIVE GOOD COUNSEL TO HER CHILDREN

Proverbs 31 was written to Lemuel, (Le-muel) the king.

Who is Lemuel the king?

Since no king with the name of Lemuel can be found in the history books many theologians believe that this was written to Solomon.

They feel that Lemuel was a pet name that his mother Bathsheba had given to him as her child.

Since history does not record a king by the name of Lemuel, we are also going to assume that this was addressed to Solomon from his mother Bathsheba.

Look at some of the GOOD COUNSEL this mother gives to her son Lemuel.

Look at verse 9. This mother says to the King to be, “Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”

Notice two things:

(1)Notice, this mother does not tell Solomon, that he has a wonderful opportunity:

• To get rich

• To establish a legacy for himself that few men have ever done before

Instead, she is saying, “Lemuel, you have an opportunity to do so much good!!!”