Finding Balance: Priorities and God's Grace

Ever thought about what it means to have a good balance in you life? Have you ever sought to find it? I’m talking about when we starve ourselves from God’s word and the things He designed for us to utilize our lives for. We too often replace those things with short term, self-fulfilling solutions that usually dry up after the newness wears off. Maybe we are always putting things off or “I will get to that later” with our relationship with God. Time is so precious and it seems to go quicker the older you get. It seems like a lack of “time” is what is always the blocking reason that we aren’t able to do more good things for people, spend more time in God’s word and do the things that lead us to a greater place in our walk with God. Maybe lack of time is not really the issue. Maybe we could do many things if we reposition what our priorities are, shifting our focus on to what gifts and blessings God has already given us.I made a huge shift this year to try and balance the “fun” things with the “important” and I have found Gods Grace way evident. It’s like I was shielding myself from it in the past by putting selfish interests first, sometimes before God. Our instinct to find joy in the wrong places, while blaming it on “lack of time”, often leaves us burning out and losing our passion. The reality is those things or “places” were never meant to sustain our wellbeing, so it’s only natural we would continually not be motivated or content. It took me years to recognize that the things I was pursuing to bring me joy were actually creating more “weight” in my life, slowly pushing me out of balance. Be Nice. Grace wins.