The Price of Motherhood

There is no greater way to measure a mother’s influence than to read the pages of history. Hannibal, Mary, Lincoln. “The greatest word is God, the deepest word is Soul, the longest word is eternity, the swiftest word is time, the nearest word is now, the darkest word is sin, the meanest word is hypocrisy, the broadest word is truth, the strongest word is right, the tenderest word is love, the sweetest word is home, the dearest word is mother.”
Gen. 2:16, John 19:25-27, Prov. 31:1-31

I: The Price of Motherhood.
1. The Valley of Shadow, and pain are to be creased.
2. Confining care thru years of babyhood.
3. Hours at sick beds and anxious waitings.
4. Listen to the sobs from the banks of the Nile to the Cross of Calvary. Bravest Battles — pg. 250 Heart Throbs

II: The Influence.
1. Is greater than country, schools, or church.
2. It begins at the cradle and ends at the grave.
3. For good or for bad.
a. Wicked women produce wicked men and women. (Jezebel).
b. The mother of the dancer that demanded the Baptist head.
c. Timely influence traced back to grandmother.
d. Lincoln, “All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angle mother.”

III: The Responsibility to God and Home.
1. America’s greatest needs is home with Godly mothers.
2. No home is set on bible bases that ignores place of mother in the home.
3. America needs mothers more in the homes than the factory.
4. God’s ordained place for mothers is in the home.
5. Mother’s greatest obligations is to bear the children God has blessed her with.