I grew up being taught by my parents as well as my teachers in school that there is something called "Balanced Diet".
Truth is, if you want to have a healthy body that grows in stability of mind and body, they were all very correct on this principle of nutrition.
God Almighty also believes in this principle.
Colosians 2:10 says "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power".
Matthew 23:23 says "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone."
There is something called THE BALANCED LIFE. Where you don't have too much of a particular thing nor too little of some. You can have something of everything to aid you in becoming the PERFECT MAN that you were meant to be. "For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:" (Isaiah 28:10).
What does it mean to have a balanced life?
It means not always hanging around your friends when your spouse is alone at home.
It means closing early from work to spend time with your family.
It means having enough money in your pocket to foot your bills.
It means taking out time to read enough to improve yourself even as we are in an information age.
It means not rushing off to work without studying your bible and praying.
It means finding some time to go to church to receive instructions for your life.
It means not being lazy and sleeping at home till 10am in the morning because you have got to go to work.
It means having some love in your heart to visit an orphanage home once in a while
It means. . .
it means. . . .
I can go on and on. The list is inexhaustible such as our recipes and menus are inexhaustible. But we have got to strike a balance in everything we do. Anything short of that, we will be living an unbalanced life, and just as the body is malnourished and deficient in certain things it needs to function perfectly, so also will we be deficient in various things, financially, emotionally, psychologically, and otherwise.
STOP! Reconsider your life. Do a rethink. Fall in line. Live a Balanced Life.
Be useful at home, at the office, to society, in church.
THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE A LIFE OF VALUE.
Life Is Beautiful.
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