OUT OF BALANCE

Church was great this morning. We are looking at the reality of being caught in a cosmic crossfire between God and Satan. This morning had to do with being knocked off balance by Satan and how he often uses our finances to do that.

The image is of Christ being in the center of our lives to such a degree that we find balance in every area of our lives. It really doesn't take much to knock me out of balance.

One of the illustrations that brought it home for me was that of a man in our church who was manager of a tire store. One day his friends played a joke on him by clipping a 5 oz wheel weight on the inside of one of his rims. When he went to lunch that day the truck vibrated so much that he could focus on nothing else. Wheel weights are good things. They are used to correct the unavoidable imperfections in every unique wheel. God spin balances our lives everyday and applies His Word to the appropriate areas of our lives. Satan comes along, many times using other agents, to apply improper weighs to our lives through deception. What could be good or helpful is misapplied and knocks us out of balance.

"Lord, spin-balance my life this week and remove the things that are not of You and apply what is needed to balance my life with You."

I know the theological, eschatological and contextual interpretation of the following passage, but bear with me as I make a personal application of the principle of what it means to have the Lamb in the center of your throne.

"For this reason, they are before the throne of God; and they serve Him day and night in His temple; and He who sits on the throne shall spread His tabernacle over them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; neither shall the sun beat down on them, nor any heat; for the Lamb in the CENTER of the [their] throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them to springs of the water of life; and God shall wipe every tear from their eyes. " Revelation 7:15-17 [insert mine]

Just Thinking