Sermon- Mother’s Day 2020
- Today we celebrate Mother’s Day.
- Once again, what a way to celebrate.
- These are difficult times, but let’s look at how God works through the difficult
times.
- Throughout The Bible you can find moms that face great feats, & yet they raise their
babies throughout it all.
- The one, I am going to point out today is, Naomi.
- I want to begin with reading Ruth 1:1-6, & I want you to see the similarities that
Naomi faces & the ones that many of us are facing.
- Then Let’s see how God works in this mom’s life, & including the world around
her.
Ruth 1:1-6
1 Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehemjudah. And they came into the country of Moab, and continued there.
3 And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.
4 And they took them wives of the women of Moab; the name of the one was Orpah, and the name of the other Ruth: and they dwelled there about ten years.
5 And Mahlon and Chilion died also both of them; and the woman was left of her two sons and her husband.
6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread.
- Naomi is the mom who lost it all.
- I place her in the position of Job. His wife told him, why don’t you curse God & die.
Q- What could God be doing?
Q- Why did this happen to Naomi?
- As we go into prayer, let’s remember we serve a God who can!
- We serve a God who has always had a plan.
Prayer
- Something That is often overlooked & forgotten is, the fact that God is not only
Omniscient, but He is Omnipotent.
- Those two words mean He’s all knowing, There’s nothing God doesn’t already
know, & He’s all powerful.
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> Joke - God’s omnipotence (www.joks.christiansunite.com)
As a matter of fact, A Sunday school teacher was asking her students some questions after a series of lessons on God's omnipotence. She asked, "Is there anything God can't do?"
All was silent. Finally, one boy held up his hand.
The teacher, on seeing this, was disappointed that they had missed the point of the lesson. She sighed and asked, "Well, what is it you think God can't do?"
The boy replied, "He can't please everybody."
- There’s the answer!
- Going Through the storm, or difficulty, never is fun, but when the pain is done, is
over. Then the happiness begins.
- Notice, i said happiness, not Joy. The things of this world may take our happiness
away, but they cannot take our Joy away.
- The Psalmist writes in psalm 30:5
Psalm 30:5
5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
- This precious mother has lost the love of her life, & then her two beloved sons.
- Weeping, yeah I don’t think there’s words strong enough to tell of her weeping.
Q- Who does she blame for her misery?
Q- Does she blame God?
- No, I believe what she does, is what many mothers do.
- She took all the pain upon herself, Listen.
7 Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters in law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.
8 And Naomi said unto her two daughters in law, Go, return each to her mother's house: the Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.
9 The Lord grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them; and they lifted up their voice, and wept.
10 And they said unto her, Surely we will return with thee unto thy people.
11 And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will ye go with me? are there yet any more sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
12 Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
13 Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the Lord is gone out against me.
Q- Who was at fault?
- She was the one deserving of God’s judgement.
- She didn’t blame her husband, or her sons.
- In this, She shows to us a motherly heart.
- Go, leave me to be alone, but you can continue blessed.
- Naomi knew that to be with her, only meant to be more burdened.
Q- Was That God’s plan though?
- In Naomi’s mind, her life was over.
- Her husband, & sons were gone. Along with that her means for making a living
were slim to none.
Q- Now, Do you see us in that equation?
- Since the beginning of this virus 33 Million people have filed for unemployment
benefits.
- God doesn’t think like us.
- At the moment of job loss, we immediately think of the worst.
- At the moment we are angered at someone, we tend to think the worst.
- That’s not all of us, but it happens in different ways in all of us, because
we’re not perfect.
- God is Perfect!
- As Israel had went the full length away from God. From Baal worship, to Ashtoreth, &
worshipping the Golden calf like it was God.
- For us, If that was done to us. That would be immediate dismissal, or destruction,
but listen to God.
Hosea 11:9
9 I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.
- God always has a plan.
- That plan is to save us!
- Just like a mother that always wants the best for her child, & gives up much (if not
all) of what she has to achieve that.
- So, from the Garden, to Christ, to our eternity, God has a plan.
- For Naomi, the plan was Ruth. Her daughter who wasn’t really her daughter, but God
had given Naomi a precious loving daughter for one purpose. To bless her.
- Ruth had been Naomi Daughter in law for ten years, & at the request for her to
leave her new mother, she cleaved to her.
- Ruth, was showing the motherly compassion back to Naomi, Listen.
Ruth 1:16-17
16 And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:
17 Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.
- She was willing to give up everything for her Mother.
- This is the picture of Christians.
Q- Why are we willing to give up so much, even to our very own lives for Jesus?
- It’s because we’re returning the love/compassion that was delivered to us.
- Form this moment Ruth goes from being a servant, to meeting her kinsman
Redeemer, Boaz.
- Then God’s blessing to Naomi is revealed.
Ruth 4:17
17 And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
- Ruth’s baby is called Naomi’s son.
- He is the grandfather to the greatest earthly king to have ever reigned!
- From great sorrow, to great blessing.
- From the time of Naomi, & Ruth leaving Moab. To the conception of Obed took ten
to twenty years. Then the blessing was shown.
- This is the picture of Mother’s Day, & our current situation.
- In all of this, God has a plan.
- For all that have been reborn by the redemption that comes through Jesus.
- Our every breath, is a breath that brings us closer to eternity with our
Redeemer.
- That’s our greatest blessing, & it only comes through Jesus our
Redeemer, & God our provider.
- Let’s celebrate Mother’s Day, & all the blessings we have enjoyed together.
Prayer
