Balancing your life

 By balancing your life, I mean balancing your relationship with God and your relationship with the world. Let us assume your relationship with God is x and your relationship with the world is y and z is the value for whether you will inherit eternal life or not, z is the result of finding the difference between your x and y.

If you substitute for instance 1 for x and 2 for y you get z as -1, which implies that your relationship with the world is making you unable to inherit eternal life, when you substitute 5 for x and 1 for y you get 4 which implies that your relationship with God gives you the ability to inherit eternal life.

 If we must really have eternal life, our relationship with God must be stronger than our relationship with the world. Trying to balance our relationship with the world only makes us empty. When you try to get all of the world and all of God it only ends in nothing but emptiness, Matthew 6:24 says, “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other”.

Here is how God treats people who want to be loyal to both, “because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth” (Revelation 3:17, NKJV). We are to strive to grow our relationship with God.

Well, let’s go back to the equation, let us say x is 5 and y is 5, your z becomes 0. We should be ready to detach ourselves from the things of this world. We cannot really get satisfied with the things of this world, true satisfaction comes from God. We cannot really serve God heartily if we are attached to this world. You can’t even overcome the devil when you are already on his side.

Let us draw close to God. When you fast, you don’t just stop eating, you stop anything from this world that distracts you from communing with God. You should not only pray because you have a problem with affairs of the world, sometimes, you can just pray because you want to talk with God, you want to praise Him for the blessings in your life.

We should not be fools but wise, knowing that the days are evil. This world is going to pass away and melt with fervent heat (2 Peter 3:10-13), but we do not have to melt along with it. God has given a way out, go through the way. Narrow is the way that leads to eternal life, only few find it (Matthew 7:13,14).

The quest for food or comfort should not reduce the strength of our relationship with God. God has said, “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”

Let our trust be in God, if the ravens could bring food for Elijah in the time of drought, what can God not do. I beckon on you, build your relationship with God and everything else will be built. May God help us to be closer to Him in Jesus name.