Balancing act


Interesting sermon from pastor today.

Psalm 62:1-2 says:
My soul finds rest in God alone;
my salvation comes from him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation;
he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

But it's not easy to rest in that truth in the midst of the demands of work, family, church etc. It takes work to enter that rest! As the writer of the letter to the Hebrews says in Heb 4:11 "Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest..."


So what "effort" do we need to make to balance all these multiple demands? The sermon used the example of skiing (pastor's pet example for context!), but I'll use the more mundane example of cycling. Even if you are a stunt performer, one is never "balanced" when cycling, merely "balancing". This is because balancing when cycling is always dynamic. Practise long enough and you learn to look up as you cycle and keep making adjustments as you move along. And then cycling becomes pretty restful!

The secular lessons to be learned here are pretty obvious. But how do we apply these lessons to our spiritual walk? The same right?

1. look up and keep our eye on where we are going for Jesus; and
2. keep moving and making adjustments to stay relevant in the situations where Jesus puts us.

Trying to stay in the same spot in an attempt to find balance is A LOT HARDER (ask a BMX stunt performer and he'll tell you, I'm sure) and worse, get us NOWHERE. Today, let's look up from our busyness and see where we are going, and keep moving and adjusting to get there. And we will. Why? Because as the psalmist says in the same Psalm at v11-12:

"One thing God has spoken,
two things I have heard:
that you, O God, are strong,
and that you, O Lord, are loving."

Our God is always able and willing!

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