Regaining Our Balance

In learning to live loved in the midst of a very unbalanced world there will be times when we are inclined to resort to measures that will appear or seem to be very unhinged in helping others regain theirs.
There is an innate knowing that our minds battle with daily when it comes to walking and working out what God has worked into us with regard to our salvation.

The only balance I know of is to continually experience the greatness of his totally freely given unconditional love that somehow uprights our lives and ushers in a sobriety, assurance and a confidence that begins to stabilize us in the midst of a world that increasingly grows more unstable by the second.

God has chosen the foolish, weak, base things of this life, you and me to cut through the masquerading facade of lies by living loved which in turn offers the invitation to living truly balanced in an unbalanced world.

"Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"? That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That's why we have the saying, "If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God."

Rich

No Need for Balance

There has never been a need for balance within the believer’s life, I realize this will be met with great chagrin, none the less, it’s true.
All of us who have been received by God the Father have a perfectly established unshakable divine order within the essence of our being, it goes like this, “Who’s we are and who we are!”

The trouble is, that we all have and will continue apart from His tutelage try and naturalize the spiritual, by using natural methods of reasoning, such as trying to ‘establish balance.’
There has never been a divorce or disconnectedness between the spirit and the Scriptures, ever. What God has joined together let no man separate! The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the Law of sin and death. This reality is waiting to explode in the hearts of those he has called to BE His!

In being led as soulish or fleshly minded people, yes especially us Christians, we are trying to add to something that has been perfectly finished.
In our blinded un-renewed soul (mind, will and emotions) we are unable to embrace the reality of this Holy Ghost (Spirit of Christ) invasion that has laid a most sure and unshakable foundation within us.
Because of knowing and experiencing so little of this established divine order of His life in us as us and because there are NO vacuums, seemingly by default we resort back to what we have always operated out of, the flesh!

Because of so many excesses from the sublime to the ridiculous within the body of Christ, more often than not unfortunately the “baby has been thrown out with the bath water.”
Have you ever seen someone trying to move forward in a boat using only one oar, it ain’t going to happen, they simply keep going around and around in circles. Doesn’t that sound like much of what churchianity has been and is doing today?

Unfortunately so much of our “Christian” walk, journey is but a caricature of what it means, “In Him we live, move and have our being.”

I read something today that imparted a further knowing of “who’s I am and who I am, as I said it’s the spirit that makes alive what we only see as printed words in a book.
It is from “Unto Full Stature.” “It has been God’s intention that by inward graces we shall exhibit life, but by gifts (in and through the gifted One) we impart life.”

Rich