Chapter XV: The Weary Mother

Many things below make a mother weary.

The blessing of _rest_ is chiefly future.

Notice various things that often make mothers weary, and the remedy for them.

CAUSE. REMEDY. I. Weary with cares and I. Do not carry your burden sorrows—ready to exclaim, ‘My alone. Ps. lv. 22. burden is greater than I can bear.’ 1 Pet. v. 7. Jer. xxxi. 25.

_Hereafter_ rest.

Psa. xciv. 13. Isa. xiv. 3.
II. Weary with work. II. Make more use of the rest of
the Sabbath.

Exod. xx. 8.

Called ‘Sabbath of _rest_.’

Lev. xxiii. 3.

_Hereafter_. Heb. iv. 9.
III. Weary with sickness. III. Comfort in time of
sickness. Ps. xli. 3.
Job, vii. 3, 4. Isa. xxxviii.
12, 14. Great alleviation in true
spirit of submission.
May be your own, your
husband’s, your children’s. _Hereafter_. Isa. xxxiii. 24.
Rev. xxi. 4.
Wearisome nights of pain, or
watching.
IV. Weary of your sins. IV. Come with your sins to
Christ.
Ps. vi. 6; xxxviii. 4.
Matt. xi. 28, 29.
Oft repented.
_Hereafter_. Rev. xxi. 27.
Oft repeated.
V. Weary with your children’s V. Correct, and they shall give
sins. you rest. Prov. xxix. 17.

Consider Christ, _lest ye be
weary_. Heb. xii. 3.

Do you know where to go for rest? Jer. vi. 16. Or are you wandering hither and thither in vain, having forgotten your resting-place? Jer. l. 6. Remember, it is only to those who are in Christ that these promises of rest apply.

It is only His own sheep who can say, ‘He maketh me to _lie down in green pastures_.’

To others there is no rest here, or hereafter, for, ‘The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it _cannot rest_. . . . There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.’ Isa. lvii. 20, 21.