Mothers Matter

Mother’s Matter Happy Mother’s day

We live in a world that is determined to minimize or ignore the role mother’s play in their children lives.

• The world would have us believe that mothers really don’t matter

• This week I about a private school that had canceled mother’s day.

• There would be no mother’s day cards made.

• The art class would not make clay picture frames for the kids to take home as a gift.

• Mother’s day would be completely ignored. Why?

• So that the children being raised by homosexuals would get their feelings hurt.

• Because after all two dads are just as good as a mom, right?

• A child can get along just fine without Mom, right? WRONG!

MOTHER’S MATTER!!

One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house. His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard.

• The door of his wife’s car was open, and so was the front door to the house.

• When he entered the house an even bigger mess.

• A lamp had been knocked over, and In the front room, the TV was blasting out a cartoon channel,

• The family room was cluttered with toys and various items of clothing.

• In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, dog food was spilled on the floor,

• A broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door. –

• He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife.

• He was worried something serious had happened.

• He found her lounging in the bedroom, still curled in the bed in her pajamas, reading a book.

• She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went.

• He looked at her and asked, "What happened here today?"

• Again She smiled and said, "You know every day when you come home from work and ask me what in the world did I do today?"

• "This is it."

A lot of times we don’t realize what we have until it is gone.

Pr 31:10 A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies.

• A good mother is more precious than the rarest rubies and should be cherished.

Of course our mothers do more than keep the house and kids clean

• Mothers are our nurses & doctors & psychologists & counselors, our chauffeurs & coaches.

• Mothers are developers of personalities, molders of vocabularies, & shapers of attitudes.

• Mothers are soft voices saying, "I love you."

• And mothers are a link to God, a child’s first impression of God’s love.

MOTHERS ARE PEOPLE THAT MATTER.

• Mother’s matter because of the impact they have on our lives.

• They impact our lives in so many different and wonderful ways that we couldn’t cover everything this morning.

• Instead, I want to look at a few of the mother’s we meet in the Bible and look at what they did to impact the lives of their children.

I. Mothers matter because they protect us Ex. 2:1-4

Ex 2:1 During this time, a man and woman from the tribe of Levi got married.

Ex 2:2 The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She saw what a beautiful baby he was and kept him hidden for three months.

Ex 2:3 But when she could no longer hide him, she got a little basket made of papyrus reeds and waterproofed it with tar and pitch. She put the baby in the basket and laid it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile River.

Ex 2:4 The baby’s sister then stood at a distance, watching to see what would happen to him.

At one time the Israeli people were respected in Egypt and honored

• Because of the work of their ancestor Joseph.

• But there was a new Pharaoh on the thrown now and he didn’t remember Joseph.

• As the Hebrews population grew the Egyptian began to fear them.

• What if the Hebrews turned against them?

So they set masters over them and used them as laborers.

• They forced them to build great cities for Pharaoh

• They beat them into submission.

• But their numbers continued to grow even under such terrible punishment.

So a new decree went out from Pharaoh

• All the male children of Israel were to be drowned as soon as they were born.

• It was a massacre and hundreds of Jewish children were murdered.

• But there was one mother who looked into her newborn boys eyes and couldn’t bear the thought of his death.