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Err...Can you do this?
Today i want to talk about balance, extremes and people who live to make sure everyone know they do everything and speak everything to extremes. Today We’ll attempt to take a look at Spiritual and Practical Extremes. Anything taken to extremes can be weighed heavily on the crazy side. Even truth taken to extremes can often result in the receiving party becoming disenfranchised from that truth even though it is absolute. Some of us cant pick the right T.V because we think God will slay us for making the wrong choice, or even pick the color of our house because we dont know if god is pleased with fuchsia or lavender walls!
There are those of use who take our religion and beliefs to great extremes leaving no room for practicality. Somehow walking around with an undeserved sense of self righteousness that we often have no idea about in the first place. These are the kind of people that think little of others and think how righteous they are as opposed to you or me. Instead of being humble and allowing God to exalt them they often stand before humility and boast about themselves and their exhaled presence. Forgetting that God reminds us to “Humble yourself up under the might hand of God that in due time he may exalt you”(1 Peter 5:5-14)
These are the kinds of people the word talks about and reminds us of for in Isaiah 64:9 it reminds us that our righteousness compared to his is but filthy rags but often some of us forget this small detail floating around the room in such self righteousness that we forget who god really is and what he says is true religion. Its not you and your extra-holy self rather its about God’s People, we are called to serve not to be exhaled and glorified by man.
And then there are some of us who who are so practical that we have no sense of the spiritual so when things happen in to us that have no explanation or something that our logic is unable to quantify we often lose control and go into depression or some introverted state of mind because everything that we know and have learned can’t seem to explain why this is happening to me or why this situation has without explanation. There are some of us who operate on such a carnal level that when problems arise where by which we have no logic to define said problem we often revert back to a mental state we haven’t seen since we were children because we had no spiritual grounding in the first place!
Take for example an extremely practical man goes to a doctor and gets a diagnosis that by all logic and practical reasoning he is going to meet his end decades before he should. This very practical man now is in quite the quandary as he has no spiritual reasoning and nothing to stand on for he is moved by what he sees and not by faith.
As you can see being either over spiritual or extremely practical often leaves us wanting. Please be advised God is not offended or by any means insulted because we have a brain and the ability to use it. We do not have to over spiritualize everything or Over Analize everything in a carnal nature because remember, its all about balance!
I believe on of the greatest prayers one can pray is to ask the Lord for the ability to be balanced.
7 “Two things I ask of you, O LORD; do not refuse me before I die:8 Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread.9 Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the LORD ?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.(Proverbs:30-7-9)
As you cna see from the verse above, among all that Solomon had all his riches that God blessed him with he was asking for Balance! He was already rich, had everything a man could ask for in life but it did not escape him that he needed balance in all this or it would be for naught.
Much Like Solomon no matter what blessings God bestows upon me I know I am no greate than what i believe and that I need to be balanced in every aspect of life. Can anyone else relate to this year for true balance in your own life?
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