"Balance"  [Reflections On Book  The The Book Of Philippians  (Phil. 1: 19-26; Rom.12:1-8; I Cor.11:29-32)

“Balance has low relevance except to giver-types;
Balance for a giver is how life comes out all right;
Balance twixt our life today with practicalities,
And life ahead with Jesus is how givers seek to please.

To please? Why yes, if pleasing God is what they wish to do;
Please themselves, for comfort comes if comfort’s what they choose;
Giver-types say “balance” like that dude there in the bank –
“Ins and outs must balance, and for that we’ve God to thank”.

Giver-types quite balanced are, good spread in all the gifts;
Giver-types find quietude, in balance get their lift;
Giver-types say balance means, “It’s best that I stay cool”;
Givers strive for balance in all things, unlike “those fools”.

Balance, unbeknownst to them, is not in person found,
But rather in community, in body that’s around;
Seek to find the balance in the body-part that’s you,
You’ll go nuts, it doesn’t work, for gifts in you are few.

Perfect hand is just a hand, it can’t see worth a darn;
Perfect eye, or nose, or foot, can’t hear a new command;
Put them all together, and plug-in an ear and mind,
Then you will be balanced – it’s in body-life we find –

Life gets better – build up parts for everybody’s good;
Body’s in community, through body-life we could
Do far more than as a part of body, perfectly –
Hand can pick a pencil up if eye can help it see.

“If you don’t discern the fact of body life”, wrote Paul,
“You’ll get sick, then weak, then die” – be pitied most of all;
Trouble with the Baptists is they have it in their creed,
“Gifts as body-parts is what just Pentecostals need”.

Yet they live it day by day, you hear it in their words –
“Balance is the best approach”, from giver-types is heard;
“Go be an encourager” – can they not see the fact
Spirit sprinkles gifts around, and bids us thrive in that?

Me? Of course a balanced-life makes sense, at least for half;
Other half? Encourager – I’m focused – makes me laugh –
I move forward, broad the front, pull up the rear-most point,
’Till the day all things get done, like work around this joint.

Dissipation is a lure to rocks I often feel;
Deep compulsion for some closure also is quite real;
Those find balance quite uniquely in my gifted way;
“What the heck, it works for me”, you’ll often hear me say.

“That’s the point, keep balanced view”, is ending that I heard,
Just like bankers in their wisdom (most say, “That’s absurd!”).
It has value to a giver, and at times for us,
If it’s kept in body’s balance, it won’t cause much fuss.

“Sick, and weak, and dying” that describes the church today –
Lost their vision (that’s perceivers – not compassion’s way);
Structure from administrators; servers get things done;
How-to from encourager’s; and teachers, lessons run.

But it is the giver-types who balance could bring in –
Drive within won’t go away; group-balance brings a win;
’Cept they don’t like “gifting models”, (nor compassion types –
Don’t see groups of anything – “We’re one – for that we’ll fight”).

Oh well, walking off a cliff just will not break the law,
More it illustrates the fact that heavy objects fall;
“Weak, and sick, and dying,” in that order’s what we see;
Pity Baptists can’t respond to Scripture that they read.

Thanks Lord for this.

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