Keep Your Balance

The food of the heart is love. We thrive upon love. However, where is God's love when disaster strikes, or when we lose a loved one? Where is God's love when we are staring at death's door? Where is God's love when we and those we care about become innocent victims? Where is God and His love when we are alone in our private pain? Where is God and His love when we are besieged on every side by every spiritual enemy? We have all been in places in our life when these questions occur. The reality for most of us is we ask these questions because there are times when His love seems absent. There are times when God is silent when we talk with Him. There are times when it seems God has forgotten us. Many of us have wrestled with these questions for years. The Bible is full of answers for us and most of us know what the answers are. We know in our mind God is with us all the time. However, there are times when we need another way of looking at the way God works. Think of God's presence in your life like training wheels on a bicycle. Sometimes you lean to one side while you are learning to ride the bike and the training wheels keep you from falling over. At other times, when you have your balance the training wheels never touch the ground. In either case, if you are so busy just trying to keep your balance, you are never aware of the training wheels. Many times in our life, we are too busy trying to keep our balance to know or notice how Christ is still there supporting us.