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 sorrows—ready to exclaim, ‘My burden is greater than I can bear.’ | I. Do not carry your burden alone. Ps. lv. 22. 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. Job, vii. 3, 4. Isa. xxxviii. 12, 14. May be your own, your husband’s, your children’s. Wearisome nights of pain, or watching. | III. Comfort in time of sickness. Ps. xli. 3. Great alleviation in true spirit of submission. Hereafter. Isa. xxxiii. 24. Rev. xxi. 4. | | IV. Weary of your sins. Ps. vi. 6; xxxviii. 4. Oft repented. Oft repeated. | IV. Come with your sins to Christ. Matt. xi. 28, 29. Hereafter. Rev. xxi. 27. | | V. Weary with your children’s sins. | V. Correct, and they shall give 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.
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