Solomon's Wisdom; Two BAD, Two GOOD Mothers

1 Kings 3:16-28

Highlights: Verses 19-21, 26

(A)

• How can a mother sleep, sleep, and sleep to the extent that she sleeps on her own baby?
• How can a mother sleep, sleep, and sleep so much so that her own baby is taken from her by another, and another baby is put at her breast...and she didn't know it till morning?
• How can a mother (even if not your own child) want a child to be put to death for jealousy sake? How???

(B)

• A good mother sees what happens to her child even in the middle of the night when there is no light, way before the morning light...
• A good mother knows her children a lot more beyond the physical eyes of anybody...
• A good mother is full of compassion for children, even if they are not hers...

The two mothers in this scripture both exhibited both good and bad signs of motherhood.

Moral Lesson: The children would only go bad when the mothers sleep and sleep and but do not watch and pray for them. The fate of the baby is in the hands of his/her MOTHER. I pray our families would have the right mothers.