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I don’t think you have to try hard to understand that most people’s lives are out of balance.
We used to teach this to kids in Campus Life… Living Balanced Life.
Jesus modeled it.
Jesus grew mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially.
Most of us might be good at one or two areas, but we are not balanced in all of them.
Stress Quiz
I’m at the end of my … rope
I’m coming … unglued
My life is falling … apart
I am at my wit’s … end
I’m really stressed … out
I’m ready to throw in the … towel.
I think ya’ll all failed.
It looks like you are in the right place because we have some folks that seem to be really stressed.
Let’s take one more test
Workaholic Test
Are you always in a hurry?
Is your “to do” list always unrealistically long?
Do you use days off to catch up on unfinished work?
Has more than one person told you to slow down?
Do you feel guilty when you relax?
Do you have to get sick to take time off?
Wow.
We are some tense over working folks up in here.
Someone said
You know you are a workaholic when all your Christmas cards from from business associates.
You know you are a workaholic when you head out to back to school night and you are not sure which one your kids go to...
You know you are a workaholic when you can’t turn your phone off in church...
You know you are a workaholic when your family refers to you as occupant...
You know you are a workaholic when unwind immediately after work by watching the news.
You know you are a workaholic when you take work related material to the bathroom with you.
Someone did a poll that sad that most Americans would like to slow down and to relax, but the fact is that most Americans are spending 8 hours less per week at leisure than say… 20 years ago.
Me on mission trip - My first trip to South Africa was 10 days.
I lugged a big computer with me so I could do payroll and some other stuff.
I had to get our bank to do it because I couldn’t do it from where I was.
It took me about a week to stop looking at my calendar and to do list.
How may of you that were sent home during the first COVID shut down… got up like you were going to work and then went???
There was this vacancy where work had been.
For some, the American Dream has become “Stress, Anxiety and Depression’
We have others in our culture who have now grown to think that the government (those of us that work) should support them and they are stressed over life as well.
God never meant for us to live life like either of these two extremes.
Today, as we continue the series, Values to live by, we are going to take a look at a quality that everyone admires, but we all ignore… Balance
How many of you would like to live a Balanced Life?
Most of us would.
We all admire that thought, of being healthy, smart, spiritual and popular… but I have never met anyone who is all that, except Jesus.
The only one to live a perfectly balanced life was Jesus.
What we are talking about today is a big sin we all have to overcome.
See, none of you are serial killers…that we know of.
You are not going out and committing horrible crimes, but most of us live pretty unbalanced lives.
The principle of Balance is a universal law that God established when he created the universe.
God loves balance.
Everything in the universe is balanced.
Look at
The Earth it’s perfectly balanced so that it rotates without vibrating.
The earth is tilted perfectly on it’s axis.
If we were to tilt just a degree or town in either direction we would either be burned up by the sun or freeze to death.
Nature is a system of eco-systems.
Even the tiniest variation in it creates a ripple effect on the rest of it.
IOW, nature has built in checks and balances.
God set up a food chain with plants and animals in harmony.
Architecture Buildings are built on the idea of balancing the load or stress out evenly so that it will stand.
If a building is not balanced, it will collapse.
Human Body is a balance of 9 systems… circulatory, respiratory, central nervous system, digestive system, skeletal system, Endocrine system, Excretory system, Lymphatic System, and Muscular system.
If anyone of these systems doesn’t work properly you are imbalanced in your health and suffer for it.
When you are sick, your systems are out of balance, so healing is the recovery of balance to your body.
Balance is a basic principal god has put into place and he is interested in you and I living life in Balance.
God is concerned about you getting enough rest.
He is concerned when you are under stress.
He is concerned when your life is out of balance.
Here is the deal.
when Our lives are out of Balance, we are not in the will of God.
Today we will learn some principles of Balance using the word...
B.A.L.A.N.C.E.
1. Build my life around Christ
Only Jesus lived a Balanced life, so if I put him at the center of my life, I have a chance to live a balanced life.
Think of your life like a wheel.
At the center of the wheel is the hub… the core or the center of the wheel.
Out of that hub go spokes representing areas of your life… goals… dreams… finances… your family… everything.
You will build your life around something, but if anything or anyone is at the center of your life other than Jesus, you will always be out of balance.
Let me ask you, what’s at the center of your life?
work?
family?
hobbies?
hunting?
possesions? a relationship?
You know how you know what it’s centered around?
Check what you think about the most.
Whatever you think about the most is whats at the center of your life.
The center of your life is very important because it controls everything else.
If you have a solid core, your life will be solid.
If your core is weak… built on anything other than Jesus, your life will be unstable.
We have been going through a difficult time the last 2 years, and I hear people saying they are at the end of their rope… that they are coming unglued… stress to the max… like their live is falling apart.
If that’s you, it means that something other than the Lord is at the center of your life… unless something chemical is going on.
Nothing other than Jesus has the strength to hold everything together.
When Jesus is at the center, everything else will be good… strong… and work.
Look what Jesus himself said…
He wants to be first in your life.
What does that mean?
What does it mean to put God first in your life?
Don’t think of 1st, 2nd place… Think of putting him at the center of everything in your life.
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