Balance

Dear Loved Ones,

   Have you ever sat at a table with unbalanced legs?  It is rather annoying as we try keep food and drink unspilt.  We oftentimes live our lives in the same manner trying to keep up the balance, or the appearance of balance, as we lurch to and fro trying to keep all our stuff on the table.  I've been thinking about this concept of balance this year as I try to balance the physical, spiritual, emotional, familial, workical (OK, I just made that word up for literary assonance-this is a real word-) recreational and social areas of my life.  The picture of a plate spinner is more apt than the picture of a gymnast on a balance beam.  

  Then I look at Jesus.  Always engaged, yet never in a hurry.  Purposeful, but not frantic.  Serving, but not busy.  How do we find balance?  I think J.P. Moreland is on to something in his new book "Kingdom Triangle."  He says we need to "Recover the Christian Mind, Renovate the Soul and Restore the Spirit's Power."  

  What a perfect picture of the Balance.  Let us Recover the ability to think critically!  Let us allow God to Renovate our Souls.  Let God's Spirit leak out of us.  (I guess we have to be filled if we are going to spill over!) We should be Thinking, Growing and living with power.  Three legged tables are rarely out of balance.

Grace and Peace,

Pastor Ron