Balance is the essence...

Has anyone stopped to notice how in a strange way, everything is balanced? How having too much of one thing is harmful. Just like Water... it is the source of life, it keeps us alive, it gives plants life, and it gives animals life. But when there is too much water there will be flooding. It suffocates plants, and suffocates us humans. Or fire ? it can keeps us warm in a cold and remote area, but when exposed too closely we will get burn, or much more consequently it can kill us. This can be said spiritually. Many follow what man says, thus never comparing it to what has been written in the Bible. Or vice versa, some can become legalistic, and follow the bible all too closely in a manner that does not bless the other person but chase them away...Or when one relies solely on the spiritual things... this can be dangerous because when one would think that they "heard" the Holy Spirit speak it might've not been because they didn't line it up with the word of God. So, this would cause many wrong choices, and just a grand mess of things...

So make sure there is balance in your life, are you just relying on the laws that were written in the Bible, but you don't spend time with Our heavenly Father hearing his voice? Or are you relying too much on this "voice" but not lining it up with the word of God? Or quite simply, are you just going to church and hearing week after week all of these sermons, yet not living a life of example? It can sometimes be a difficult to balance everything....but there is way. =)