Sunday is Mother’s Day, and we plan to celebrate the mothers in our lives!  If you are a mother, thank you for the sacrifices you make to bring new life into the world and for the ways you have helped shape that new life. Mother’s, you fill an essential role in our society, and we praise God for you. All of us are born from mothers, and Sunday is an opportunity to give thanks for those people that brought us into this world and helped shape us to be who we are today. On a personal note, I am very grateful for the mothers in my life: My mother was a loving person who was devoted to serving God and serving her family; For Sue, the mother of our children who continues to lovingly support and care for them; For my daughter Katie, the mother of my four grandchildren, who has sacrificed so much for her children. 

On this Mother’s Day we want to recognize the worth of all women in our lives. Historically our society has not treated women with the respect they deserve. Most cultures around the globe and throughout time have considered women as holding a second-place status compared to men. It wasn’t that long ago that women could not vote in this country. While a woman’s role has come a long way in recent years, society continues to find new ways to devalue the worth of women. Rather than celebrate and support the essential and unique role women play in giving birth to children, society is trying to make them as unpregnant as men are. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if we don’t continue to give birth to children, humanity is only one or two generations away from collapse. In an attempt to satisfy those that would want to create something that is against the natural order of things (this is one area where evolution and creation can agree) the worth of a woman is being diminished as the differences between women and men are being exploited.

In Proverbs 31 King Lemuel records for us the women of noble character, and in those words we will discover the Worth of a Woman. It is important to see that when this chapter was written some 3000 years ago it was in the backdrop of a society that generally treated women as objects of very low value. Sadly, society today is finding new and creative ways to devalue women, which makes this chapter still very relevant. Join me this Sunday as we discover the Worth of a Woman.