Mother's Day 2023
Fight Like A Mother
Jeremy Johnson

Anger is God’s gift to help us address an

.

We should never waste this gift fighting

people when we can fight people.

2 Samuel 21:8-10 (NIV) But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons of Aiah’s daughter Rizpah, whom she had borne to Saul, together with the five sons of Saul’s daughter Merab…He handed them over to the Gibeonites, who killed them and exposed their bodies on a hill before the Lord. All seven of them fell together; they were put to death during the first days of the harvest, just as the barley harvest was beginning.
Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest till the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies, she did not let the birds touch them by day or the wild animals by night.

Psalm 34:18 (NIV) The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

dignity to someone is an act of .

dignity for someone is an act of .

2 Samuel 21:11-13 (NIV) When David was told what…Rizpah…had done, he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the citizens of Jabesh Gilead…David brought the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from there, and the bones of those who had been killed and exposed were gathered up.

My compassion might not change the

, but it might impact the .

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