Homemaking

Homemaking Matters

What is Homemaking? I used to think that homemaking is just for moms or stay at home wives who does all the cooking, cleaning, scrubbing, washing clothes and dishes. To further understand about that word, I googled it. This is what I got

Homemaking- The creation and management of a home, especially as a pleasant place in which we live…

Homemaker - A person especially a house wife who manages a home.

I wanted to find more meaning about it so I googled Biblical Homemaking. And this is what I’ve found.

Biblical homemaking -  is successfully running and managing your home for God’s glory…

Over the past 5 years of my life as a married woman, I have slowly gotten into homemaking. I didn’t see the deeper importance of it in the beginning. And that home life was just part of an obligations of being married and having a family life. My focus was more on my career and earning money for a living. My effort, energies, goals was all set in working too hard, getting a promotion, getting a business and have enough money to sustain our family’s basic needs.

Until frustrations came in, promotions given to others, feeling left behind at work with my colleagues, school mates and friends. It was like all my hopes and efforts were unappreciated. Then I realized something else… I have asked myself a lot of questions. Who am I, why I was here, and what is my purpose in life…

And this strikes me: 

I began to see that homemaking is more than just cleaning the bathrooms or sweeping the floors, as a woman regardless of our marital, parental, or employment status, Homemaking is our thing. That there’s sanctity in keeping our home. Homemaker is much more a significant role than having an illustrious career or getting a promotion at work (I bet not everyone will agree with me).

God has entrusted me a family of my own. A husband and a son, I will have more influence over their lives more than anything or anyone else in this world. And that is to be taken seriously. And that is to be taken seriously.

  

 I’m not an expert in family life and home making. Just like anyone else, I am in a journey of learning, developing, and discovering my God given role as a woman. And our special assignment is to be a home maker. As for my experience, and like any other wife and mom out there, being a home maker is a tough “job” and often over whelming and exhausting. But if you have the love and passion for your family and God, you will find joy within your home.

How can we run our home the biblical way? Join me as I dive deep into the journey of womanhood and become an effective Homemaker that glorifies the Lord.

Here are some of the guide we can use straight from the bible…

-        -  PROVERBS 31 is an ultimate guide for biblical womanhood.

-        -  TITUS 2 Model for home making, women mentoring women growing and learning together

“The beautiful thing about being a homemaker is that God gave us the tools that we need to fill our role – even if we work full time outside the home or are not married yet. God has made women naturally caring, nurturing, intelligent, and able to balance a million things at once. When I refer to a homemaker, I am simply referring to a woman who spends even a tiny bit of her day making her home atmosphere just a little more Christ-Centered. “– Jami Balmet

Today, I hope and pray that you recognize the importance of homemaking, that no matter how tough and insignificant our daily task is, it Matters....