If you are like many homeschool moms, you frequently burn the candle at both ends. You are chief educator and homemaker with much on your plate. You know your calling is from the Lord and you do everything you can to see to it that your children are well fed, clean, and making progress in learning.
But, do you also apply that same care to yourself? More often than not, the answer is “no”. Here’s an amazing fact that many moms do not consider. God worked 6 days and rested on the 7th. Yes, even the creator of the universe rested. He took one day a week to replenish, rest, and be restored.
Are you doing the same?
Here’s what the Bible has to say about rest and restoration:
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. -Genesis 2:2-3
The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” -Exodus 33:14
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure. -Psalm 16:9
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. -Psalm 51:12
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest -Proverbs 6:10
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. -Matthew 11:28-29
Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest. -Mark 6:31
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest in hope. -Acts 2:26
So while the pull is to do it all and day in and day out, it is God’s desire and plan for you to work 6 days and have a day of rest. God’s plan is always the best way!
