Balance
Most of us like choices. Not many of us like it when things are decided for us… Even if something is what we wanted to begin with, the fact that we weren’t able to exercise our right to choose makes us a little itchy…
I love that we’re free to choose to love God, and to walk in His Spirit. I’ll compare it to relationships like this: my family is mine, but I didn’t choose them. I have to love them. My husband, on the other hand, I chose to love, and I still choose. Sure, my family is a part of me, but what joy there is in getting to choose to love!
And then we’ve got the balance between passive and hyperactive… If we’re at either end of the spectrum, we’re not living a healthy life. Being passive when it comes to spiritual things is like taking your husband (or wife) for granted. Not cool. Being passive doesn’t work.
Being too active – too busy – is just as bad. I can’t focus on God if I’m running at 100 mph, no matter how important all those things I’m doing are.
So the goal is balance in all things, right? Active, but not driven; content, but not passive. Lord, may I find that balance today.
Balance is right! And wow can it be hard. I know for myself I don’t want to wait around and let God do everything for me but I can relate to the other side of the same coin and that is being too busy.
ReplyDeleteIt is hard sometimes to slow down when my morning starts off getting kids up and ready for school. They need to get dressed (must have clean laundry), get feed (must have groceries)and taken off to school (need a car that works or start early enough to walk) then hurry off to work for eight hours, come home for dinner, baths, jammies, whew bed time.
That was a mouthful and I have help from Marc and the kids themselves help out too, like finding the missing shoe as we go out the door! All that to say, and I am not complaining that is not the point of this note it is to say if I don’t make time for God I get too busy very quickly.