BALANCING LIFE’S DEMANDS

October 14th, 2009

All of the world is based on this principle of balance. The principle of nature is that the world is perfectly balanced. It is tilted at a certain angle and rotates at a certain number of miles per hour without any vibration. If the world were a little bit closer to the sun we would burn up and if it were a few miles further away from the sun we would freeze to death. The world is in balance.
In nature, the ecologists study the ecosystems where the food chain and the checks and balances in nature take care of each other.
In architecture, there’s balance. There’s the balance within a structure. Engineers know that if a building isn’t built right and the stress isn’t balanced, it will collapse or a bridge will fall through.
In your body, doctors say when you get sick, it is an imbalance in your body. Health comes when your body is restored to balance. The red and white corpuscles are balanced and your hormones are balanced.
All through your life, in everything we look at, it all focuses toward the principle of balance.

God wants our personal lives to be balanced.

Proverbs 28:2 “A man of understanding and knowledge maintains order.” He has balance in his life.

1 Corinthians 14:33 “For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace.” God wants things to be in balance.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 “There is a time for everything…” God wants us to live balanced lives.

Probably the most common problem I encounter is this problem of imbalance. The problem is that most of us have a tendency to work on our public lives and let our private lives slide. We work on how we look and how we smile and how we talk, but people don’t see your private life, so you sometimes let that slide.
There are some problems when your personal life is not developed, not in balance. Two things happen:

1. Frustration Frustration is a result of imbalance in your personal life.

2. Fatigue You get tired when your life is out of balance. Anybody who’s ever bought a car or a new set of tires know that when you buy new tires, you need to get them balanced. If the tires on your car are not balanced, you’re going to have a bumpy ride. That’s what happens in your own life.

On my next post I want us to see what the Bible says about balance.