Romans 8:12-15 NKJV
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors-not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. [13] For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. [14] For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. [15] For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
I was thinking, well meditating, on this portion. It seems to me we see that sanity is some kind of equilibrium; that we may be seen as imbalanced when we get mad or when we eat too much, or eat too little, for example. We have all to keep a balance, the real question is of how that balance can be kept.
There was a song called “Question” by progressive rock band the Moody Blues that I used to listen to when I was 9 or so. (My father had the album, and I’ve quoted other parts of this album called “A Question of Balance” many years earlier to drive home a Biblical point, even though they were not a Christian band.) Anyway, the lyrics went something like this:
“Why do we never get an answer when we’re knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions about hate and death and war?
‘Cause when we stop and look around us, there is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed”
This is the problem which worldly philosophy tries to solve even now: that was the problem which I think Christianity solved and solved in a very strange way.
The world declared that virtue was in a balance; Christianity declared it was in a conflict: the collision of two passions apparently opposite.
So there is no balance within the world, no Ying and Yang, true sanity and balance happens only when we put to death the deeds of the flesh by the Holy Spirit.
As the Apostle Paul writes so eloquently “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? [15] And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? [16] And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.” [17] Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.” [18] “I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the LORD Almighty.”” 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 NKJV
We are to be led by the Spirit of God, to be the sons of God. That, to me, is equilibrium.