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Proverbs 31:10-31

Mother’s Day, is a day set apart to take time to honor our mothers. We send flowers, call them, give them breakfast in bed or take them out to eat and this is how it should be, not just once a year but through out the year.

In our text, the writer is revealing the greatness and effectiveness of a godly mother, in any context and in any society. She is of inestimable worth and greater than rubies.

We live in a day when families are struggling and marriages are fast disappearing from our society, as we once knew them. Satan has attacked the home from the beginning and today our society has bought into a godless type of humanistic value system for our homes and marriages. Still within this type of environment a mother can develop and maintain a godly influence upon her family.

The key is verse 30, charm and beauty are temporary but a genuine “fear of the Lord” is the indispensable core of a godly mother. The demands of motherhood are tremendous, and this can be seen in the description of this women in verses 11-29, she is busy, productive, sacrifical and enterprising, etc. In our society today, this translates to managing the home, shopping, taking children to the doctors office, serving as a taxi driver, and on and on and on.

In spite of a busy schedule, she recognizes and makes time for her relationship alone with God. She will be like Mary in Luke 10, staying close and taking in the words of her Lord and Saviour.

Fathers, sons, we need to heed the advise given in verse 31 “give her credit for what she has accomplished”. Give heed to I Peter 3:7 and give her the love, consideration and honor that she deserves, so that our “prayers will not be hindered” Failure to do so, 1) destroyes the picture that marriage provides of Christ and the church and 2) sins against our children since they pick up our attitudes and actions.

Mothers, I salute you.