The WTS refers a lot to "spiritual balance™".
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a Balanced, Simple Life"Keep strict watch that how you walk is not as unwise but as wise persons . . . because the days are wicked."—EPHESIANS 5:15, 16.
IT IS a challenge to sort out priorities, juggle responsibilities, and devote time and energy to the important aspects of life in a reasonable way. It is also a challenge to avoid extremes and maintain mental and emotional steadiness.—Ephesians 5:17; 1 Timothy 4:8; 1 Peter 1:13.
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This challenge might be compared to that faced by a performer who attempts to walk on a thin high wire. Loss of balance would be a disaster for him. Similarly, the loss of spiritual balance would be disastrous for us. A person walking a high wire surely does not burden himself with many things. He carries only the essentials. In order to maintain our spiritual balance, therefore, we need to live a simple, unburdened life.—Hebrews 12:1, 2.3
If we are to live a simple life, we must involve ourselves only with the things needed to maintain a reasonable livelihood. In contrast with what his disciples should seek—God’s Kingdom and His righteousness—Jesus Christ spoke of "the things the nations are eagerly pursuing." (Matthew 6:32, 33) So Jesus admonished us to avoid accumulating a lot of these things. Why? Because they can complicate our life and lead us astray. (Luke 12:16-21; 18:25) This is good counsel, regardless of whether we are wealthy or poor, well-educated or not.w72 7/15 431
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However, you may take the viewpoint that you are just trying to provide things needful for your family, not becoming materialistic due to a lack of faith; and this is entirely proper. In fact, the man who claims to serve God and does not provide for his family has disowned the faith and is worse than a person without faith. (1 Tim. 5:8) At the same time, by putting faith in the prayer to God to provide our daily bread, we may find we can devote less time to secular pursuits and more to the ministry. In lands where the people live more simply they do not spend long hours watching television, or Saturday afternoon polishing the car or keeping the home in repair, and so can truly put the Kingdom interests first in their lives. Jesus advised us to pray for "our bread for this day," not for our needs five or ten years from now.—Matt. 6:11."spiritual balance™" Yes an interesting term. But have you thought about what that means. If we, as humans have certain basic needs, psychological, emotional, physical, social and spiritual then why is a life that focuses solely on the spiritual and the ignoring of other needs called "balanced"?
According to the WTS everything else in life takes second place. The rest of your life should be a small fraction of what you do. Meetings, service, study and prayer should all take priority over these others needs. But how balanced is that?
I recall a thread on here a while back where people were posting how much time they were spending in "Kingdom interests™" The amount of time was staggering especially for the elders.
If you have to put the proirity on "kingdom interests™" then how balanced is it? It seems for the WTS it is an all or nothing deal. And as we know no matter how much you do it is never enough.
No wonder so many of us burned out.
