Faithfulness

How do people invest 14 years of their lives to homeschool their children? Ask any Christian homeschool parent and they’ll tell you – faithfulness.

Faithfulness can be described as being strict or thorough in the performance of duty. Faithfulness, then, applied to homeschooling is preserving in teaching your children even when you are criticized about your child’s socialization. Faithfulness also means spending countless hours preparing for daily lesson plans, grading those daily lessons, teaching a concept until your child “gets it”, learning to live on less sleep and money, giving more of your time to your family than to yourself, and following Christ who gives you the strength to do it all (Philippians 4:13).

Faithfulness is a character trait not easily found today. Homeschoolers approach too many commitments with, “Well, if this doesn’t work, I can get out.” When life gets tough, we are tempted to escape our responsibilities, but faithfulness means not forgetting the Lord in the good times and not blaming Him in the bad times. No matter where we go, we will have difficulties of some kind.

Today, I want to encourage you to homeschool in faithfulness. Even when we fail to be faithful, God remains faithful, and He will give you the strength and wisdom to remain faithful and true to the commitment of teaching your children.