Sermon Notes

“Balance”

Balance around the tree circle

Three things I noticed

Too fast forward

Looking back

Arms out

Physical Balance is important in life

Harder as you get older

GRV Rehab

20 item test

Importance of posture

Importance of Spiritual Balance

Past vs. Future

Looking to the past can be helpful

Lessons learned

Sense of rootedness/security

Who we are formed in past

Yet need more than the past for balance

Focus on what we are losing

Negative feelings

Feelings of Fear

Balancing past with future

Jesus in Luke – “Be careful or your hearts will be weighted down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life.”

“Be always on the watch”

Looking forward to the future keeps us from getting stuck in the past.

Looking forward gives us hope because it reminds us that the bad we are experiencing now is not how it will always be.

Proper Spiritual Balance

Harder as you get older

Can go forward too fast

Looking back too much

Good Posture

Confidence…in God

Arms reaching out

Prayer – reaching out to God “watch & pray”

Others – reaching out to those out in the world

It is spiritual balance that helps “our redemption draw near.”