December 19, 2024 – Listen To Your Mother

Listen To Your Mother
December 19, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 31:1-3
 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

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OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

    Who in the world is King Lemuel? Most biblical scholars believe it was the name given to Solomon by his mother. There is no record of a King Lemuel in either Israel or Judah. For 29 chapters, we heard the words of Solomon as he conveyed the wisdom God had given him to his son. Chapter 30 contains the words of Agur. However, this final chapter is devoted to the warnings and wisdom of Solomon’s mother.

 

    Three times, she asks the question, “What?” As if asking God, “What Shall I say to my young son.” She cries out, “Son of my vows.” Undoubtedly, this was a vow made to turn his heart toward God and to teach this young mind the ways of the Lord. Even the name Lemuel she uses for him conveys this vow. Lemuel means “Unto God” or “With God.” Just as parents today often dedicate their children to the Lord, it seems she had done the same. Now, she is asking, “What?” She is contemplating what she might say to guide her young man through the perils of life.

 

    In her first words of warning, she asks him to contemplate his relationships. “Be careful,” she says, “in matters of love.” Do you remember who Solomon’s mother was? She was Bathsheba. The one thing that tarnished the reputation and testimony of the godly man David, his father, was his lust of the flesh. How well she knew the destructive power this sin can have over a man. She surely had witnessed in private what it did to her now-husband, David. Oh, how well her son Solomon should have listened.

 

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

    Solomon did obey his mother’s voice and the Word of God for many years. Recalling Deut. 17:17 “Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away:” Nevertheless, later, he strayed, and these words came back to haunt him. His many wives did turn his heart. God’s Word is sure. So, too, are the words of a godly mother.

 

Have you ever heard the phrase;
“I wish they had listened to me?”
Does the phrase still ring true today?

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and todays Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

 

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: December 19, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
  James
  Proverbs 31:1 – 3

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
  Nahum
  Revelation 12-13