Do you have children? Did you know that you’re homeschooling every day? Even though you may be sending your little ones to public or private school you still are teaching them at home. Through your words and your actions. They listen to your phone calls. They watch how you interact with your husband. And they mimic you. Watching your children act just like you can be extraordinarily humbling. And also a great reminder that every day we need to follow after Him who has called us.
And if you truly are educating your children at home align your focus with His word. You have so many wonderful opportunities to fill these little sponges with Godly wisdom. For us, we’ve chosen to school our children at home so that we can teach them how to live for God while living in a broken world. Something even the oldest of us struggle with daily. But we’re praying this will build a strong foundation under them for we know the days are coming when their faith will be tested.
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.” {Luke 6:46-49 ESV}
Sure, they will learn english, math, science, etc., but not one of those subjects comes anywhere close to the importance of learning how to honor, love, worship, serve, etc. No school can teach your child that. God has given that privilege to parents.
But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled. Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. (Titus 2:1-8 ESV)
Whether you are teaching the three r’s to your children at home or not, make sure you are teaching them Christ when you are together. From when you wake to when you rest. Help create in them a foundation that will not be easily rocked. Do not rely on Sunday School teachers. God has supplied you with everything you need. This is your time. Help raise up this amazing army to fight for Him.
Blessings!
