Today, we wrap up our theme for this month on balance and our focus this week on creating a balanced home structure. There’s a really strong chance that the very reason you know about Solo Parent Society and you have decided to take the time out of your day to listen to Sound Mind Set is because, regardless of how much you were a part of the issue, someone in your life knocked you off balance. Maybe you were the one who knocked your family off balance. But regardless of blame or fault, you have been fighting, working to get life back into focus, back into balance for a while. For so many of us, balance won’t be solved with a one-week crash course, but rather through a one-day-at-a-time attitude towards health.

We live in a world today that has lost the true biblical concept of grace and forgiveness. We turn on the news to hear another horrible stat and to see that somehow evil seemed to win again. Many passages in the New Testament encourage us that, no matter how bad anyone else gets, how bad the culture gets, we must keep steady in our faith and follow God. Even if that means walking against the grain and walking alone.

Listen to 2 Peter 3:17-18:

My dear friends, you have been warned ahead of time! So don’t let the errors of evil people lead you down the wrong path and make you lose your balance. Let the wonderful kindness and the understanding that come from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ help you to keep on growing. Praise Jesus now and forever! Amen.

Did you hear the contrast between verse 17 and verse 18? Listen again …

My dear friends, you have been warned ahead of time! So don’t let the errors of evil people lead you down the wrong path and make you lose your balance. Let the wonderful kindness and the understanding that come from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ help you to keep on growing. Praise Jesus now and forever! Amen.

Scripture warns us that to keep our balance and stay on the right path, we have to stay away from evil. How? By growing in the wonderful kindness and understanding of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Let me be honest. When we dive into our weekly themes, there are no Bible passages that say “Here’s 5 ways to balance your home life.” That will be true of a lot of our topics. Yet, I hope you are gaining the insight from weeks like this that while it is not that cut-and-dried, the Bible does tell us many more than 5 ways of how to balance all of life, including home. But we have to dig in, look deep, and draw out the truth from God’s Word. We pray that has happened for you this week.

Let’s pray together: “Heavenly Father, one thing about the world getting worse is that the disparity between good and evil, right and wrong, You and Satan, are quite clear. Help me every day to stay away from evil by staying close to You. With You, in You, I have nothing to fear and everything to gain. As above, so below.”