Mother's Day -- 9 May 2021

Jews had a proverb - God couldn’t be everywhere so He created mothers.

In our english bible we have Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel. This is not the case in the Hebrew bible. It is Judges then 1 Samuel. 1 Samuel’s setting is the book of Judges where Israel was at its lowest, coldest spiritually, they were immoral. The book ends saying, “There was no king in Israel and everyone did what was right in their own eyes…”

When Israel was at its lowest, God’s plan and this mother’s plan was to have a child who would come on the scene as a prophet...used as a priest under Eli and would take the Nazarite vow and impact the nation and become the king maker, selecting Saul and then David.

And, it all starts with a barren woman crying out, praying to God...