Does Christ Jesus dwell in your heart? Let me share a secret with you. Christ lives in rest. God lives in rest. Nothing gets him in a state of nervous tension. Nothing gets His stomach tied up in knots. And wondrously, He wants to live His life of rest in you. Instead of doing everything in your own strength, allow Him to live His life of rest in you. Instead of doing it your way, do it His way.
“That’s impossible,” you say. You can’t imagine how much I have to do. And now the school year is starting again, I’ve got even more to cope with. I don’t know how I’m going to adequately school all my children!”
God is so great. He shows us the way to do everything we face in our lives. God’s way of teaching our children is quite opposite to the public school way. Of course you know Deuteronomy 6:6-9 where God tells us to DILIGENTLY teach our children. “Diligently” is not a half-hearted word. It means: “To impress sharply by verbal repetition, to point, to show, to engrave, to make them penetrate, and to whet as in whetting the appetite with repetition and diligence.”
How do we do this? God tells us to do it as we live life--when you sit in your home, when you walk by the way (or drive in your car), when you lie down, and when you rise up. He doesn’t tell us that we have to complete every curriculum we purchased (just because we spent the money on it). He doesn’t tell us we have to accomplish the set block of teaching we planned for the day.
God’s way of teaching is “precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little” (Isaiah 28:10). They don’t have to learn everything in one day. Children learn better in bite-size pieces. And there is still tomorrow. There is a lifetime ahead!
God says more on this subject. He continues speaking: “To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing” (Isaiah 28:12). Did you get this dear, weary mother? It says: “THIS IS THE REST AND THIS IS THE REFRESHING!” Let me repeat it: “THIS IS THE REST!” God knows the best way for our children; they learn a lot more this way. And He knows the best way for you; you will enjoy rest instead of becoming a stressed-out, anxious mother.
But we have a problem. Many don’t believe God’s way. They think they have to do it like the school system, or like some other mother is doing it. Dear mother, follow God’s way. Don’t be like the people to whom God spoke these words and their response was: “yet they would not hear” (Isaiah 28:1
Are you listening?
Blessings from Nancy Campbell