Thursday April 03rd, 2025
« Beloved, I pray that in every way you may succeed and prosper and be in good health [physically], just as [I know] your soul prospers [spiritually] »
16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
There are many people living substandard lives because they don’t balance their spiritual and physical lives.
Many Christians do everything spiritual; they pray, study their Bibles, are wonderful workers in the Church, evangelize and so on, but then, ignore diligence in the workplace, the need to eat healthy, and the need to build a good connection with their family members.
At the end of the day, they are not pleased with how their lives are and they sometimes wonder why God is not magically making everything right.
While you must do all that God expects you to do to be fit spiritually, you must not neglect what you need to do to be fit physically as well. Galatians 6:7GWT says
« Make no mistake about this: You can never make a fool out of God. Whatever you plant is what you’ll harvest »
If you neglect your health, do not be surprised when you fall ill.
If you sow disregard for your wife/husband and children, you would naturally reap disregard from them too.
If you sow lack of diligence in your workplace, poverty would follow Proverbs 6:10-11 .
What you sow in the spiritual, you will reap just as you will also reap what you sow in the physical.
Our memory verse tells of God’s wish for our prosperity, good health and spiritual growth.
The case of those who put all their attention on the physical and neglect the spiritual is however, worse.
For many of such people, they begin the fire brigade approach of fasting and praying for that specific problem, but may not get the desired answers because there are some things that only answer to a Father-child relationship with God, Matthew 15:26.
The kind of life that God wants you to live is one where there is a balance between the spiritual and the physical – one where you can live a fulfilled life here on earth and then spend eternity in heaven when you leave the earth. That is a well-balanced life.
That is the kind of life you should seek to live.
Application – Are you living a balanced life – spiritually and physically?
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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