Balance

Articles

Rick Byrd
05/02/20 - Faith

BALANCING ACT...

Like most things in life, balance is the key to acceptance and dependence.

Our dependency on God is useful, needed and expected.

This is hard to accept for the independent who thinks they can handle everything...

and even harder in this life on the dependent who expects everything to be handle.

The Psalmist David depended on God... but then acted on His behave.

Psalms 27:1 The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; Whom shall I dread?

David never expected God would abandoned him...

But always found a way to cope with the everyday.

Psalms 27:7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice, And be gracious to me and answer me. When You said, "Seek My face," my heart said to You, "Your face, O Lord, I shall seek."

David knew the Lord was near. He knew the Lord would help. He knew it was alright in whatever the Lord decided for him.

Psalms 27:11 Teach me Your way, O Lord, And lead me in a level path Because of my foes.

David knew and so he waited!

Psalms 27:11 Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord.

Patience and perseverance is not only a virtue and not just a cliché... but a commandment!

2 Peter 1:2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge, and in your knowledge, self-control, and in your self-control, perseverance, and in your perseverance, godliness, and in your godliness, brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness, love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they render you neither useless nor unfruitful in the true knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.