Sermon: Proverbs 31:10-31 (Mother’s Day 2008)
May 11th, 2008 · Posted in SERMONS ·I have posted my sermon for today on my sermon blog. It’s a Mother’s Day sermon based on Proverbs 31:10-31.
Here’s a portion of it:
Pearl S. Buck’s novel The Good Earth gives a dramatic portrayal of the birth pangs of China emerging from feudalism into a more modern nation. The key figure in the book is a lowly village woman — O-lan. O-lan is a plain, unassuming kitchen slave, who becomes the wife of Wang Lung, a peasant farmer. In faithfulness, patience, and absolute devotion, she follows the rising star of her husband. During the changing experiences of poverty and wealth, starvation and prosperity, O-lan is the anchor of the home. She is the skillful one who keeps everything together. She is the stabilizing factor in family.
Perhaps nowhere do we get a more vivid and realistic picture of the true status of womanhood than in the Old Testament. The woman in Proverbs represents the ideal. The idealized picture we have in our text, Proverbs 31:10-31, may not represent the average wife and mother in Israel at the time, but it does capture the imagination and remind us of what all a mother can do – and many times needs to do – to keep her family together.
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