CHRISTIAN HOMESCHOOLING BEGINS WITH CHRIST
Relate to Your Own Education Part 3 of 3
Christian Homeschooling Articles Series Themes:
- Relationship
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Stewardship
- Scholarship
- Easy Recordkeeping
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Season Three: A Prospering Soul
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I was entering the high school years now, to continue with this metaphor.
Because I had been abiding and allowing God into the deepest places of my heart, He was changing me! My soul—mind, will, and emotions—was being released to love; it was beginning to prosper (3 John 1:2).
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To summarize my growth during this season, what I had allowed God to tear down He began to restore. My mourning turned to dancing.
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A prospering soul is evaluative (will), discerning (mind), and content (emotions).
- Evaluative
When conflicts arose within my home or my public or private life, I learned to ask, “What are you teaching me, Lord?”
Now when the Spirit corrected me, instead of the heart-wrenching repentance of my past, I had learned to trust Him and simply surrender. I repented before my children and before others I had offended in my ignorance.
I also began evaluating how I homeschooled. Rather than hopping on the bandwagon and trying to copy what others were doing,
- Discerning
- Content
- Content with God’s faithfulness. And over the years, as my children matured into the academic high school years, they themselves began to love to study because they had developed a love of learning when they were younger in natural ways and through relational learning alongside my husband and me.
As I watched them soar in independent study, my faith strengthened. Yes, when relationships at home were functioning well, school would flourish in later years. God’s faithfulness to teach me was producing the fruit I had desired from the beginning. God is the faithful One, always faithful, semper fidelis.
- Content with God’s chastisement and discipline. At the beginning, I wanted my children to see Him in me and be drawn by His Spirit to His life, love, and liberty. Yes, Lord, You have answered my prayer beyond what I asked as I cooperated with you in obedience. Thank You, Lord!
No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it. ~Hebrews 12:11
- Content with God’s liberty. Because of His training me, I began to live within the liberty of Christ. No longer did the churches’, the school system’s, the world’s, or homeschoolers’ images draw me. I had become content (but not complacent) at home, with my homeschooling choices, and with the discipline of the Lord. He released me to love!
Where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
~2 Corinthians 3:17
I learned four principles during this season that I am now teaching my children:
- Making mistakes is not sin. How you respond to correction may or may not be sin.
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Judge the fruit of teachings.
- We have a choice: to be limited by what man tells us is God’s best or to be satisfied with Life in Christ.
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Liberty is not license to sin but freedom to choose what you know is right.
I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts. ~Psalm 119:45
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Let Him use homeschooling to tear down those things that stand in the way of your personal, spiritual growth.
Choose not to be the prodigal continuing to chase after lifeless philosophies that entangle you, confuse you, and hinder you in your walk with Him.
Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
~Hebrews 12:1
Instead, become the transformed, repentant child who celebrates new life with the Father. As you turn from images that bind you to the heart of your Father, He will meet you and lead you to the way everlasting because He loves you.
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May He bless your homeschooling journey with a fresh perspective of Who He is, how He faithfully leads you, and how much He loves you.
Be confident of this,
that He who began a good work in you
will carry it on to completion
until the day of Christ Jesus.
~Philippians 1:6
I hope you have benefited from this series of articles on mom’s growth through Christian homeschooling. Please feel free to contact me about any way I can improve this series or any other articles on this Christian website.
Thank you for sharing in my journey.
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