A mother has, in a peculiar degree, ‘need of patience.’ Heb. x. 36.

I. In trials of temper. 1 Cor. xiii. 4, 5, 7. Prov. xiv. 17.

II. With your children’s faults.

Matt. xviii. 22, 35.

Look back to the days of your childhood.

Were not you equally trying to your mother?

Remember your own faults, and God’s patience with you. He bears long with you.

III. It may be you need patience in bearing with unjust tempers, and unkind treatment. 1 Pet. ii. 19, 23. Ps. xxxvii. 7.

IV. For answers to prayer.

Syro-Phenician mother. Matt. xv. 22, 28. Jam. v. 7, 8. ‘Tarry thou the Lord’s leisure.’

V. In tribulation, sickness, and poverty. Rom. xii. 12. Jam. v. 10, 11. Luke, xxi. 19.