Isaiah 66:13 “As a mother comforts her son, so I will comfort you, and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”

This verse is undoubtedly the greatest compliment Mothers could receive. When God wanted to use a metaphor to explain the compassion He has for His people, He compared Himself to Mothers.

Over one hundred years ago, G.K. Chesterton asked: “Can anyone tell me two things more vital to the race than these; what man shall marry what woman, and what shall be the first things taught to their first child?” Chesterton said,

“the daily operations surrounded her with very young children, who needed to be taught not so much anything but everything. Babies need not to be taught a trade, but to be introduced to a world. To put the matter shortly, a woman is generally shut up in a house with a human being at the time when he asks all the questions that there are, and some that there aren’t…Our race has thought it worth while to cast this burden on women in order to keep common-sense in the world….But when people begin  to talk about this domestic duty as not merely difficult but trivial and dreary, I simply give up the question. For I cannot with the utmost energy of imagination conceive what they mean….If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home, as a man might drudge (at his work)….But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colorless, and of small import to the soul, then I say give it up….”

Deut 6:1 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it; 2that thou mightest fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. 3Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

6:4  “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! 5  “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.6And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. “You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.9 “You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

That is the purpose of life, and there can be no greater. Everything centers on that. That is the one great lesson which ought to be learned in every home, to love God. Jesus said that, didn’t he?

To achieve this, parents are to begin with themselves.  “These words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart”

Mom’s is that the pattern you are, or have followed?

Proverbs 22:6: “Train up a child in the way he should go” and when he is old he will not depart from it.”

Ephesians 6:4: “Bring your children up in the training and admonition of the Lord.”

the very famous passage so often quoted,

There are some who treat that as simply an unqualified promise, almost a mechanical thing.

You do a good job as a parent, and if a wheel comes off, quite frankly, it’s your fault. Because if you bring up a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not depart from it. Your fault.

One of the mistakes in that exegesis, is that it fails to understand that God in his Word speaks to us in different literary forms, and different literary forms have different ways of making their appeal. This is not simply unqualified promise, nor is it law. It’s Wisdom Literature.

Wisdom Literature has a way of setting forth the polarities with a stark clarity that helps us think through how this universe under the sun, ruled over by God, works. But it doesn’t put any of the footnotes in.

What it does presuppose is that we’re actively engaged. Thinking things through. Trying to do what’s best for the child. From the child’s point of view, if the child is being brought up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, you learn to obey your parents. Even the Lord

Jesus in the days of his youth, when he was but 12 and called to do his master’s business, returned to Nazareth and submitted to his parents.

Both proverbs stand. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” This is the way God has made the universe. This is the way things are under the sun. This is the way families operate. This is the way things are designed by God himself. But proverbs does not put in the footnotes.

They don’t talk about how sometimes a son comes out and is just horrifically disobedient.

Nor do they talk about the times when a son emerges from a really wretched family when all the sociology should insist that this person will come out to be a perverted reprobate himself and grace reaches down and transforms him.

Proverbs does not put in the footnotes. They give you the structure. Be very careful we don’t lay a false guilt trip on parents who, as far as parents can be righteous and faithful in this sinful broken world, have been good parents, solid parents, have seen three of their kids following the Lord with intimacy and gratitude, and then one with a wheel coming off.

How long will that wheel come off for? Two years, three years, six years?

We must be careful not to treat proverbs like unqualified promises without putting in any of the footnotes. God alone knows the heart. God alone knows where all the fault and the blame is. Still, you don’t want to weaken Proverbs 22:6 either. This is the way the universe is built. This is the way God ordained things.

He ordained things such that parents bring up their children in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord. Children learn to obey and throughout their lives, honor God. This is the way good social order and, more importantly, the faith itself is passed on from generation to generation. When in the mercy of God there really is genuine reformation and revival in the church and in broader society.… When it takes place, the families change.

Where do you get your pattern of training?

In “Confessions of a totaled woman” Karne Wise says,  we quote the verse, train up a child, train not let it happen, not suggest, but train, we don’t train  anymore, we car pool, and sign out kids up for twelve different activities instead, consequently we have kids who play an instrument,  kick a good ball, know how to use a computer, and tell their folks where to get off.

The role of mom is often difficult, circumstances of life,  are not all good,  those of a mother are not as well.

Circumstances never excuse our actions, but what will you do.

“I ask you, who was greater, Thomas A. Edison or his mother? When he was a young lad his teacher sent him home with a note which said, ‘Your child is dumb. We can’t do anything for him.’ Mrs. Edison wrote back, ‘You do not understand my boy. I will teach him myself’. And she did,

1 Kings 3:16 Now two women who were harlots came to the king, and stood before him. 17 And one woman said, “O my lord, this woman and I dwell in the same house; and I gave birth while she was in the house. 18 Then it happened, the third day after I had given birth, that this woman also gave birth. And we were together; no one was with us in the house, except the two of us in the house. ^[1]And this woman’s child died in the night, because she lay upon it. 20And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. 25And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. 26Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it. 27Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

We get confused  about the issues of life, if we are having hard times,  we think it is ok to fudge, and not do what is right, we are excused in those circumstances,

Just because things are bad is no excuse of what we do, you may have lived with a drunk,  a drug addict, a thief,  a mean, selfish man,  that does not change the fact that you have a responsibility to be responsible, that applies to everyone,

These ladies were harlots. Women of the evening, for what ever reason  they did not get an abortion,  so they are living in a house, probably for the sake of money,  sharing the cost together, both are pregnant, one has her child,, three days later the other one does,, Two women in one house is a mess, two pregnant women in one house is a big mess, but two pregnant prostitutes in one house is a real mess,  the circumstances of these two mothers was probably the worst that could be in that era. When you look at your situation and say no one has had as bad as I have, or had, look at these two, it could not get any worse. No grand mom or dads to take them in they were fending for themselves, When your children come of age, they need to assume Responsibility, whatever the cost.

They have Made choices that led them to where they are,  Circumstances never excuse our actions

[1] And this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on him.

Two nursemaids were wheeling their infant charges in the park  when one asked the other  are you going to the dance tonight,,  I’d love to the other replied but to tell the truth  I’m afraid to leave the baby with its mother.

.    A Bigger Difficultly arises.      Iresponsibility leads to worse sins,,  

Some one tries to take a mothers child.

Things can always get worse,  sin unless it is stopped just leads to another sin, chain reaction,  adam and eve, they sinned, that was the first sin  they disobeyed God,, then they lied to cover that one up,, then Adam lied again,, Why or how could some try to take someone else child,, how could they do that  We should never be  surprised at sin, Older mothers you know this,,,  young mothers you will learn it,,,   there will always be some one out there who is trying to take your child,,,   in many cases it will be one in your own household,,  I mean take them from you in a sense,,  that you know they can be something else, better  if you can just keep them from this or that,,,  Moms in general,, unless they mess it up from the start,, and you can do that,,  Moms in general have closer relationship with the children from the beginning,,   from a biological standpoint..  In the first few years especially if the mom raises them,, as they did probably in the era,, they were kept at home until a certain age,, in the case of Hannah How could I try to blame some one else or why would I blame some one else for my sin,

She does what all of us do, we try to blame someone else,  it wasn’t me,,, They are ashamed that others will see what they have allowed, or what has happened.

Be irresponsibility in you devotional life, and it will lead to irresponsibility in all of your life, it will lead to irresponsibility in your parent life,  it goes on and on, and it will come to you and you will have to face it one day,  you might run and get away until the day of Judgment, but you will face it.

This mother needs help.   There will be times in all of our lives  we will need help, before or after we make mistakes,

Mothers you will always need some help,,,  you were not created to do it by your self,,,  many times you will only have one place to go, to the KING,

Many times other peoples sins put you in a place where you have to take more responsibility that you were created to take, then and only then will some people go to the KING,  I mean Jesus.

No responsible man was there, no family was there, none is mentioned, she had only one hope to straightened this mess out, has she been wrong absolutely, is she guilty  yes, but at this moment  she knows this is a lie and wrong and is trying to fix it, and she goes to the king,

At first what the king says do is frighting, he says to settle this, lets cut the child in half,

Most of the time  it takes a severe painful cure to fix things, he said cut him up, the longer you let sin grow  the bigger ax it takes to cut it down, this situation could have been prevented a long time ago, did anyone think about going to the king then, before they started sleeping around.

TRUE LOVE OF A MOTHER GIVES UP HER RIGHTS

Good news is a true mother gets to the right thing, the bad news is, it might cost you everything,  what will you give up for your children, or what will you give your children up for,

What ever it takes, a godly mother says, GOD you wip him  I have wipped him already,,now you do it,

What God allows in our lives is hard sometimes in order that the truth can be seen,,,    Solomon, the king was wise,,,  when he did what he did,, the truth was shown,, the issue settled.

Most of the time,, when we finally go to the King,, or the King sends someone to us, it is late in the process and now it will take a big knife to fix it,  It is never to late to go to the King..

Mothers  some of you in here have been Godly mothers all your lives   and you have still made mistakes, You have been to the King, from the start, and you know exactly what it is,,,  you have done what was right all these years  and some of your children  still didn’t turn out the way you had hoped, KEEP going to the king,