Balance Is Way Over-Rated

I had a deep and challenging conversation with a friend last night about the verity of balance. Whether there is such a thing and whether it is that to which we are to aspire. I personally wince whenever I hear what sounds like the weak reassurance that "we just have to find a balance." It ranks right up there with "it is what it is," as one of my most annoying current trendy isms. I have had other such talks with estute friends who have told me that balance is indeed a biblical principle, but I have yet to be convinced of that, and the scriptural back-up for it seems to be lacking.


Perhaps it is because so many good things in my life have been bestowed upon me in very unbalanced proportions. It's so hard to smile understandingly when advised to pare down, and even more difficult to sit still when I am praised for doing so much when I know full well that my experience has been that the most important things in my life have come through no effort of my own. I am merely a spectacle of His grace, as is every one of His precious children. Balance is way over-rated!

1 Corinthians 15:10- "But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not in vain." ESV