Have you heard of the phrase : Work life balance?

Balancing stuff in life is a guilt response, a response of adjustment mentality.
When you balance something, you put on one side that what you shouldn’t be doing and on the other you try to put things that you should do more often and try to reach a balance.

It is a sin escaping mindset.
It is, one hand, fulfilling your carnal desires and then acting religious.
For example, one goes to a brothel and then goes and feeds the poor at the temple.
One can rebel and do several corrupt deals and then go on a pilgrimage.
Sin and then as an atonement, carry a lamb once a year for sacrifice.
Spend time partying with friends ignoring wife and children when they need you and then come home and say will take the kids to the zoo on Sunday.

It is a very phrase, “But I am very busy, you know.”
Who says he is busy?
One who cannot manage time (this is a lack of skills),
or the one who cannot finish his work on time (lack of skills/ability),
or who has taken too much on his plate and now not able to handle (lack of prioritisation and focus).
All these are non performance issues and not lack of time.
Any time you hear someone say he or she is busy, what they are essentially saying is that they are not able.

Responsibility is not just being there positionally or physically, it is shouldering the plough. It is being accountable.
It is also finishing well what you have taken up. But that is for another day.

Balancing is an example of replacement.
Any amount of adding good to bad cannot balance.
However, when good is put first, it replaces bad. Good does not mix with bad.
You cannot balance absolute with anything else. God has no equal. He has no rival.
You cannot be lukewarm. One day hot, another day cold. You will be spit out.

God is either first in your life, or is nothing in your life.
He is either Lord over all, or not Lord at all.
His name is the Alpha, the First.
You cannot change that name, don’t ever try.

When you put Him first in everything, rest gets added.
Seek first the King and His dominion over all. All these things, needs, gets added to you.
But if you first put the needs over the King, you lose both.

When I shift my focus on the blessing from the Blesser, I lose the blessing.

Jesus said, you put Me first, I’ll take care of the other stuff.

But as soon as I shift my appetite from the Kingdom to its benefits, I lose both.

Keeping God first releases His Kingdom in a difficult situation. When He is there, His dominion is there. Every other inferior thing has to bow down to the Supreme and source of all power in the universe.

The Church that Jesus is coming back for is a holy church without spot or wrinkle and the Bible says the only thing that produces holiness is the Fear of the Lord.

So at any time there is a challenge of prioritisation, putting God first, it is an indication of the absence of the Fear of the Lord.

It is like knowing God as the source but not recognising Him as the source of security and self worth.

Being born again is a mindset shift. Shift of what you hunger for.
What are you hungering for?
If it is not going through what He has created you to do, you have a wrong appetite.
Your focus is on natural things and not eternal.
Don’t try to balance, change your appetite.
Keep eternity in perspective.

Being lukewarm in a relationship with Jesus is not a phase in life, it’s evil.
We may have physically weak times, we may have ups and downs in emotions, we can have challenges and trials in our life, but none of that ever has to translate to complacency in our devotion to Him.
We have times where we know what’s going on, we are aggressively pursuing the call in our life. Then there are other times where we are clueless, we are just trying to do our best.
But complacency or procrastination is never an answer.
You day being reduced to a routine in Jesus Christ is not the option.

Choose wise. Choose God first.

Recognise what you are responsible for and who you are responsible to.

Do not balance, prioritise.