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Most of you are familiar with the famous story of Job from the Bible. He was the wealthiest man of the East in his time. He also had seven sons and three daughters. And although he feared God and stayed away from evil, there was something else he feared.

Job 1:5 …Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

Job was afraid his children would sin and die and so he acted as mediator between God and his children and made offerings to God on their behalf, wanting to justify them before God. He was trying to save his kids.

Are you homeschooling out of fear? Are you trying to save your kids? Whether you are wanting to save their souls or save them from the school system, fear should never be the motivator, and saving your kids is not your job.

We feel the heavy weight of homeschooling because we take on a burden that isn’t ours. Your child’s future is not in your hands. You don’t know the plan. Someone else does, though.

Don’t carry the weight of a burden that you were never intended to carry. You aren’t the primary teacher, provider, protector, comforter, rescuer, and savior to your kids. Those are words that describe God. You are not God. Taking on a role that’s way too big for you will crush you. Even if you are a “Pintrest perfect” mom and seem to be crushing it today, you will never have the ability to see into the future to know what your children need today to be prepared for tomorrow.

There is Someone who can work it all out for the best, who can meet every need, and who gives you a specific job to do: love your children. Enjoy them. Enjoy being with your kids.

Fear is not the motivation to homeschool; love is. Do it out of love.

Job loses all of his children. He loses all his possessions. He gains an understanding that God is awesome, bigger than we can imagine, in control, all-knowing, all-powerful, only good and always loving. Job learns that he isn’t God.

I will not encourage you to self-empowerment; I will encourage you to truth. The truth declarations I remind myself of are that I know nothing, can do nothing, and have nothing. Jesus is my all in all. In Christ I have everything, can do everything, and in trusting Jesus, I know that I don’t need to know everything; I just need to know Him.

If you are carrying a burden too big for you, give it over to God. Just pray. Tell Him you are giving it to Him to carry. Thank Him for taking it and for doing a better job than you could. If you don’t know God, tell Him you want to get to know Him. Who wouldn’t want to know an always good, always loving God? And to start getting to know God or to get to know Him better, I would suggest to you the Bible study on our site, “This Is Eternal Life.”