I have directed you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in upright paths. Prov 4:11
When our daughters were in early elementary school God began to place a burden on my heart to homeschool them. I prayed about this for two years but when God made it clear that this was in fact His will, I jumped in with both feet. I remember doing alot of research about the different curriculums that were available. I pondered, prayed and asked lots of questions to other homeschool moms. Once I got a couple of years of homeschooling under my belt, I discoverd the learning style of my children and stayed with a curriculum that worked best for them. They didn’t always want to follow the lesson plan, but because of my God given role to be the parent I had to choose to stay the course. I knew that one day well into adulthood they would realize my choices were out of love.
How many times do we as women of God question, argue, or wrestle with the lesson plan of our heavenly Father? We’re so familiar with verses like Romans 8:28 that we could quote it in our sleep. We read our bibles and the stories of the men and women of God who’s live were a mash up of sorrow and song, faith and failure, tragedy and truimph. Yet, in our own lives there’s an undercurrent of uncertainty about the way’s of God.
I’m not a well of wisdom yet, but one thing I have discovered is that God has a lesson plan. The curriculum is His word, and that is a given! However, the daily lesson plan is tailored made for each of us according to His infinite wisdom. It may not always be what we want to learn and how we want to learn it, but He is too loving and too wise to choose anything less than what will accomplish our utmost for His highest.
Recently my son who is now 22 came to me and said, “Mom thanks for choosing the math curriculum that I hated so much when I was in high school. It’s really helped me now in my job.”
“O Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You, I will give thanks to Your name; for You have worked wonders, plans formed long ago, with perfect faithfulness.” Isaiah 25:1