The Seasons Of A Mother's Life

Galatians 6:9 Mother’s Day 2024 5/12/24

I want to wish all of you Mother’s and those who have Mothered someone else’s child, a HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!!

I know you moms TEACH your children SO MUCH but here’s a few things one mother learned from her children about CEILING FANS.

1. If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not strong enough to rotate a 42-pound boy wearing Batman underwear and a superman cape. But it is strong enough to spread paint on all four walls of a 20 by 20 foot room.

2. You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on.

3. When using the ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit.

4. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.

5. The glass in windows, even double panes, won't stop a baseball that has been hit by a ... ceiling fan.

Here’s a few more things you can learn from your children.

6. When you hear the toilet flush and the words "Uh-oh", it's already too late.

7. I thought this was interesting. A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq foot house 4 inches deep.

8. The words Play Dough and Microwave should never be used in the same sentence.

9. Super glue is forever

10. Always look in the oven before you turn it on.

11. Plastic toys do not like ovens.

12. The fire department has about a 5-minute response time.

Those are funny stories. But in all seriousness, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are probably the most Biblical Based Holidays that we celebrate. Exodus 20:12. The 5th Commandment.

“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

And so we HONOR you today.

I want to make three statements here that I truly believe. Are you all ready?

#1 You LADIES have MORE INFLUENCE, over MORE PEOPLE, than anyone else in the WORLD. I love the old Glen Campbell, Steve Warner song, “The Hand that Rocks the Cradle Rules the World”. I’m not a very good singer but I wanted to sing it on Mother’s Day for my mama but I never did. I wish I would have now. Here I am getting close to 60 and I still cry when I think about her. I sure miss her. But listen, that shows just how much INFLUENCE she had over me.

“There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas

Creation's most unique and precious pearl

And heaven help us always to remember

That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world”

I PRAY that you MAMA’S will realize how much INFLUENCE you have in your children’s lives.

#2 Your JOB of MOTHERING is the MOST IMPORTANT JOB in the WORLD and you CANNOT, LISTEN, please HEAR ME, you CANNOT be replaced by anyone. There is a PHYSICAL, SPIRITUAL, and EMOTIONAL BOND that God has CREATED between a MOTHER and HER CHILD that CANNOT be DUPLICATED.

ILLUS: In China they basically have Co-Parenting between the GOVERNMENT and the PEOPLE. A policy of ONE CHILD per couple began in 1980. The GOVERNMENT instituted FORCED ABORTION and FORCED STERILIZATION. Millions of BABIES were MURDERED. And now it’s come FULL CIRCLE. They are facing a crisis. The population is in a DOWNWARD SLIDE. The IDIOTS in CHARGE didn’t think about the fact that more GIRLS would be MURDERED than BOYS and so now there’s NOT ENOUGH GIRLS to go around. And so now they are STRONGLY encouraging the members of the military to LEAD the way on having more children.

Listen, there is NO ONE who can replace YOU as a MOTHER. God made you SPECIAL and He EQUIPPED you just for the JOB of being a MOTHER. It really is the MOST IMPORTANT JOB in the WHOLE WORLD.

#3 And this last statement is what I want to PREACH ON this morning. Your JOB as a MOTHER NEVER ENDS. This morning, I want to talk to you about the SEASONS of a Mother’s Life. But before we do let’s go to the Lord in Prayer.

Brother/Sister ____, would you lead us?

Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

In other words, LIFE GOES ON. Spring turns to Summer, Summer turns to Autumn, Autumn turns to Winter and then the whole cycle begins again. Winter turns to Spring. And throughout ALL of the different seasons of a persons life, time MARCHES ON. And listen, even if we wanted to, we cannot stop it. I’ve heard parents say and especially mama’s, “If I could just make time stand still I would.” But we can’t. SEASONS MUST COME and GO.