Posted on 03/09/2021 10:42:48 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother” (Proverbs 10:1).
It says there that “a wise son maketh a glad father,” it's amazing the number of times in the Book of Proverbs, in particular, it keeps talking about the son and the father and the mother; and, of course, we understand on the one hand that the devotional father/son relationship is the spiritual father/son relationship to us with Christ. But anybody that's raised sons, and for that matter daughters, knows that your kids above all else have the capability of breaking your heart or making your day. Well, there's a little bit of both that goes into that, right?
But here in proverbs 10:1, it says that “a wise son maketh a glad father.” Notice also that “a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.” Everybody, before they get their kids raised, has quite a number of heavy days where they are disappointed by something that’s happened. They're scared, they are intimidated, and all those things. There’s a little bit of both that goes into that.
Everybody wants to be able to raise their kids according to the outline, and that everything would go just exactly according to the plan. Since when did anything in your life go exactly according to the plan, right? You would be foolish to think that everything happens smoothly with raising children, even Christian children. It is not practicable to think that everything goes smoothly and that there are no rough waters. It’s just not realistic. Well, unless your name is Mary and you were in Bethlehem and your son’s name was Jesus. Well, at least not with Him. Certainly, there were some rough times in the home when His brothers and sisters came along. Can you imagine trying to tell on your brother Jesus? I’m pretty sure that is where the challenge, “Prove it!” started. Nobody quite has the capability of breaking a mother's heart or a father's heart quite like their own children do. On the other hand, there's nothing quite so rewarding as things working out the way the Lord always said it would.
Think about that! Why would the father be related to the wise one, and the mother to the foolish? What would be the difference? Generally, when a man is successful the man will take the credit for it. “A chip of the old block,” “I taught him everything I know.” But if that bird turns out to be a turkey, you know what the dad does? He disinherits him, writes him off and goes and plays golf—but that mother broods over the boy, and bears the burden of that individual. I guarantee, she doesn’t forget it, and she doesn’t write him off.
The man will just write him off, the man is very pragmatic. The kid turns out to be a success, he’ll take all the credit, but the kid turns out to be a dud—he just writes him off! But that woman, she bore him, she fed him, she’ll never write him off. She’ll bear that “heaviness.” It’ll be a burden to her. She’ll never give up on him.
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