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Mother's Day: Quietly Faithful
Contributed by Larry Brincefield on May 5, 2004 (message contributor)
Summary: Who’s your hero? Famous athlete? Singer? Movie Star? Maybe you should look closer at your mom...someone who was quietly faithful; day by day, year after year after year.
May 9, 2004
Title: Mother’s Day: Quietly Faithful
Text: Proverbs 31:10-31
Introduction:
A man couldn’t decide what to get his wife for mother’s Day…she he wrote her this lovely poem:
M is for the mink coat you want, dear,
O is for the opal ring you crave,
T is for the tiny car you’d love to drive,
H is for the hat that makes you rave,
E is for the earrings you’d love to have,
R is for the Oriental rug on which you would tread;
Put them all together, they spell “bankrupt”,
So I’m giving you this handkerchief instead.
(from www.sermonillustrations.com)
1. Who are your heroes?
• Who do you look up to?
2. For many boys today their heroes are people like:
• Shaquille O’neal
• Kobe Bryant
• Eminem
• Warren Sapp
3. For many girls today, their heroes are people like:
• Brittany Spears
• My daughter, Amelia, likes Mary Kate and Ashley.
• Beyonce’
• Jennifer Lopez
• Christina Aguilera
4. Our heroes are flashy…
• They are the top of their profession…music, acting, or sports.
• They are rich…
• They are beautiful…
• They can shoot a basketball from the 3-point line at the last second and win the game…
• They got the moves…
• They look cool.
• Some of our heroes are supposedly considered “positive role-models”…
• But, many times, something happens…
• An illicit affair…
• A criminal offense…
• And suddenly, this person that people looked up to..
• This positive role-model…
• Is no longer so positive.
• My son Ethan likes Kobe Bryant…
• But then something happened…
• He may or may not have attacked a woman…
• Which will be decided by the courts…
• But, at the least, he was guilty of adultery.
• And, every once in awhile, Ethan asks me how that whole thing is going.
5. By comparison, our kids think we are so uncool…
• I remember being a nerd in school…
• But when I became an adult, I thought all that was behind me…
• But, now, all of a sudden, Kay and I find that we are “nerds” all over again.
• We don’t dress cool…
• We don’t act cool…
• “Mom…you’re not going to wear something to embarrass me when you come to pick me up at school are you?”
• “Clarice’s mom and dad are sooooo cool”
• “how come we don’t get to watch certain movies…all our friends at school do”
6. I realize that not all of you are in the same situation as we are, with young children at home…but maybe you have grandchildren in this age group…
• And I also what you to think about who you look up too…
• Clint Eastwood…
• Frank Sinatra…
• Humphrey Bogart…
• Pete Rose…
7. It is hard not to be drawn in by our heroes…
• But sometimes, I think we are drawn in by the wrong things…
• There is so much more than wealth…
• or good dance moves…
• or sex appeal…
• Or athletic ability.
8. Today is mother’s day…
• And I doubt that most of you had mothers who were professional athletes…
• Or singers…or actors…
• I doubt most of you had mother’s who were wealthy…
• Or had a perfect figure…
• Or a million dollar smile…
• Or wore the latest clothing styles out of Paris.
• But they had another quality that I want us to consider this morning…
• They were “quietly faithful”.
Read Text: Proverbs 31:10-31
1. First of all, I want you to notice that the Proverbs Woman was quietly faithful
A. Nowhere in the passage of Scripture does it talk about her wealth.
• It does say that she is worth far more than rubies…
• But that’s not referring to her material wealth…
• That refers to her value to the family.
• The Scripture doesn’t speak about her exquisite beauty…
• The Scripture doesn’t refer to her athletic ability…
• But what this passage of Scripture does describe…
• Is someone who was quietly faithful…
• She works hard taking care of her family…
• She gets up early…
• Stays up late…
• Ministering to the needs of others.
• She worked a second job…
• She made sure her family was clothed and fed.
• She kept the house up…
• Basically, she was quietly faithful…
• Day in…day out…
• Month in…month out…
• Year in…year out…
• She was working hard for her family…
• Faithfully taking care of those she loves so much.
2. Now, I want you to take a closer look at your own mom…
A. She may not have the figure that comes from 1,000’s of dollars of plastic surgery…
