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What Makes A Great Mother
Contributed by Matt Skiles on Jun 13, 2023 (message contributor)
Summary: Giving birth does not make a woman a mother. It takes a special woman to be a mother. A mother is a person who is willing to take the responsibility of investing her life into another human being who is totally de-pendent upon her to do so:
Proverbs 22:6-Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
Application: If your children don’t honor and obey you, whom they can see, how will they learn to obey God whom they cannot see?
C. Mary Was Faithful to Her Children
John 19:25-Now there stood by the cross of Jesus His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
Dr. G. Campbell Morgan has four sons and they are all preachers. Someone once came into the drawing-room when all the family was there. They thought they would see what Howard, one of the sons, was made of and they asked him this question: "Howard, who is the greatest preacher in your family?" Howard had a great admiration for his father, and he looked straight across at him, and then, without a moment's hesitation, he answered, "Mother."
—War Cry.
The first thing necessary to become an outstanding mother is a personal relationship with God. The second thing necessary is a proper relationship with your family, the third ingredient in every outstanding mother is...
III. A WILLINGNESS TO SERVE GOD
Luke 1:38-hen Mary said, "Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.
Deuteronomy 10:12-13-"And now…what does the LORD your God re-quire of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 "and to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?
Dwight L. Moody once wrote of his boyhood:
"Dad died when mother was forty-one. What a struggle she had with us; six besides myself, and then the twins were born after father's death. Only three books in the place, and yet they were enough—the family Bible, the catechism, and a book of family devotions. How the spruce log fire sparkled as we sat on the mat on the cold Sunday nights when church was impossible. I can hear mother now, solemnly adjuring us to walk in the ways of God, as she read from the big Bible to us. After father died, mother wept herself to sleep every night, sister said, and yet we younger ones who slept soundly in our blissful innocence, knew it not. She was always cheerful to us. Brave old mum! Her motto was, `Give others the sunshine, tell Jesus the rest.'"—Christianity Today.
CONCLUSION: As we celebrate Mother's Day may God continue to give us Godly mothers and outstanding mothers who will be a blessing to their husbands, children and most importantly, the kingdom of God.
