Illustration Courtesy of BreezyTulip’s Studio
Thinking about homemaking brings to my mind many different ideas, but the main thing that stands out is the need for us mothers & wives to build our homes. The kind of building that you don’t see immediately with the eyes, but the kind that you understand with your heart.
Our homes do require a lot of work on our part to keep them running orderly and to be a healthy and thriving place to live, but let us not get so caught up in the workings of the home that we forget or neglect the better things. (Luke 10:40-42)
What are the better things? Nurturing and training our family. Building relationships that will endure and thrive in this chaotic world. Making the Lord Jesus Christ the center of your home.
We need to be building strong families that will serve the Lord and do the kingdom work that He has called each of us to do. As wives and mothers we have been given our assignment. You may want to run or hide from it like Jonah, but don’t—your family needs you.
If you are struggling in this area ask God to give you the desire and contentment that you need to see your job through to the end.
It will be well worth the eternal results.
Practical tips coming in part 2!
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Thank you for this. So very much. Thank you for validating what I do.
You are so right!!!! God has been reminding me of this very thing as I have been praying with Proverbs 14:1 this week! I have readjusted my focus and am excited what is starting to happen in our house because of it.
Thanks for the confirmation, Robin!!! Have a great weekend with your family!
Building Home with Him,
Mary Joy
Can’t wait to read practicals tips, those things have been on my mind a lot lately!!!
It’s a constant challenge to remember that my relationships determine my responsibilities, not the other way round. It takes grace, lots of grace, to manage a home and love the people instead of loving the home and managing the people!
can’t wait for those practical tips, goodness knows i need them!!! i am the mother of an 11 year old, Rose, and another daughter who will be 2 in April named MaryGrace. I struggle daily because I haven’t always strived to have a Godly home. I’m sort of “starting over” in this new year. Really enjoy reading your blog though. Keep it up, you, and others like you, give women like me hope!!! =)
I struggled with my job also.Thank you for posting this…….Homemaking is a most rewarding job !
So very, very true! A wise woman builds her home with eternal materials and special, prayer crafted ingredients
This is something I am struggeling with. But with the Grace of God and lots of help from outside and inspired sources I am finding my way and leading my family .
I have discovered that it is so much easier and less time consuming to keep a home when there is less clutter. I am in the process of purging clutter so I can work more efficiently and have more time to spend with the children training and fellowshipping.
Lovely post and pic, Robin & Breezy!
Hang in their women, God will undergert you with encourgement.
LOVE this article and reminder
Thank you 
Blessings,
Tami
PRAYING 4 A MIRACLE 4 JEREMIAH
http://www.tillGodbringsthemhome.blogspot.com
I am so encouraged by this blog!
Thank you so much for this blog. I am a happy mommy of 3 children all age 2 and under (twins +1) and I am so encouraged to see that others share my heart about living for Christ and raising our girls to be homemakers. It is so hard to be truly set apart for Christ in this world. Its even harder when your own parents and in-laws are neither believers nor are they supportive of your decision to stay home and dedicate your life to raising children…
Love this post. I just found your blog via “Beautiful Calling”…I will be following you now for tips and encouragement!
What do you do, however, when your husband places order and cleanliness above time with the kids and time for the most important thing of all — raising the children in the Lord and teaching them to put Him first? My husband desires, almost demands, that the house be in order and be CLEAN. I spend so much time trying to do that and trying to justify why I let some things slide. On Sundays, he doesn’t even go to church with us anymore. He works the other 6 days a week, so he uses Sunday to get things done around here. We have AWANA at our church on Sunday evenings, so there is very little time between church services and AWANA to get much done. I have come to dread Sundays because of this. He gets aggravated and frustrated that I spend so much time at church on Sunday when he thinks the house getting done is more important.
I am very alone in this. My friends’ husbands could care less as long as things are basically clean and “tidy” most of the time. They spend weekends together doing fun things and being together as a family. We do not. Even the kids have come to dread the weekends. What can I do? My house is “company clean” to me. It’s not spotless, but it’s nice and neat. Everyone else says, “Oh the messes can wait. Those things don’t matter as much as your kids.” I know this, but I can’t do it that way or I’d hear about it constantly and life would be miserable.
Any suggestions? I’ve only been praying.