DEVOTION ~DIVERSE WEIGHTS

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Theme: Diverse Weights 
Text: Proverbs 20:23

23 Diverse weights are an abomination to the Lord, and dishonest scales are not good.


In life, there's the need to have a well balanced life. You must be able to manage every area of your life to please God. You can't keep winning at a field of your life and loosing at another. You need to be victorious in all you do be it spiritual or physical to God's glory. 

A life that isn't spiritually and physically balanced is a diverse weight. This life is abominable to the Lord. You can't just focus on the physical neglecting your spiritual needs. Likewise can you not also be spiritual neglecting the physical. If you're a leader who is just being spiritual neglecting the physical needs of your followers, you're not meeting God's standard (James 2:14-17). If you're a husband or wife who doesn't see the need to be responsible in meeting the needs of your family, but only usher them to the Lord, your weight is imbalanced and the reverse is equally true too. If while in school, you decide to do other things more than studies, you'll also have an imbalanced scale on campus. 

In whatever you do, you need to be sincere and honest. Avoid using the apportioned time for a particular thing to meet the needs and demands for other things. If it's time to work; trade, business, career, etc do it diligently as though you're before the Lord serving. In the same vien, when it's time to serve God; evangelism, fasting, prayers, etc excuses must not be given. A balanced life is what God requires of you not a diverse weight. 



Prayer: Gracious Father, thanks for the enlightenment not to have diverse weights. Forgive me for the moments I failed to do what I ought to do. Help me to learn to balance every sphere of my life to meet Your will for my life. Holy Spirit divine, strengthen me to do the needful at the right time to God's glory. This I ask in Jesus' name. AMEN! 

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