The Need for Daily Character Building

If your family is anything like mine, there is a definite need for daily character building. In our homeschooling experience, the educational part of homeschooling is a breeze. It is the character building part that can have me pulling my hair out at times. Even though the school year is more than half way done, the problems we’ve faced have not been academic in nature; but that of 3 willful children. Although there is a large gap between our first child and our second (a span of nearly 6 years due to two miscarriages), the willfulness in our first certainly kept us busy until the willfulness of our second and third children joined the party. So for us, the primary focus of our homeschooling journey has been character building.

This being said, I would like to share with you a list of scriptures that have helped me a lot these past 11+ years while being at home with the children. I have read and confessed them almost daily and it has changed the atmosphere in my heart and home. In addition to changing my own heart, our children have followed suit.

Patience

“But if we hope for what is still unseen by us, we wait for it with patience and composure.” Romans 8:25

“Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience.” James 1:3

“For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away [and enjoy to the full] what is promised.” Hebrews 10:36

“Now may the God Who gives the power of patient endurance (steadfastness) and Who supplies encouragement, grant you to live in such mutual harmony and such full sympathy with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus.” Romans 15:5

“May the Lord direct your hearts into [realizing and showing] the love of God and into the steadfastness and patience of Christ and in waiting for His return.” 2 Thessalonians 3:5

Peace

“Strive to live in peace with everybody and pursue that consecration and holiness without which no one will [ever] see the Lord.” Hebrews 12:14

“Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of [and produced by] the Spirit in the binding power of peace.” Ephesians 4:3 

“I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]” John 16:33

“May grace (God’s favor) and peace (which is perfect well-being, all necessary good, all spiritual prosperity, and freedom from fears and agitating passions and moral conflicts) be multiplied to you in [the full, personal, precise, and correct] knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” 2 Peter 1:2

“You will guard him and keep him in perfect and constant peace whose mind [both its inclination and its character] is stayed on You, because he commits himself to You, leans on You, and hopes confidently in You.” Isaiah 26:3

“And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:7

“When a man’s ways please the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.” Proverbs 16:7

I hope that you will be encouraged in your homeschooling journey and obtain all that is yours in Christ Jesus! Here’s to a brand new day with lots of patience, peace, and joy! And learning – of course!