by John Tyler

Created on: February 13, 2011

Is Your Life Balanced?

The top three goals of humans seem to be Wealth – Health – Purpose.

Let me address each of these because they actually all interrelate. If you have wealth, and tons of it, but your health is deteriorating, what good is your wealth? If you have great health, good looks, and your weight and teeth are perfect, what good is it if you have no purpose? If you have purpose and are blessed with good health, what can you accomplish with no money?

I speak from experience here. I have been a multi-millionaire and bankrupt. God has blessed me with fair looks and good health – even at my tender young age of 67! I also have a purpose in life, so I get to experience all three so far. I want to say, though, that once you get all three of your life goals together, you must continue to work at keeping them

Let me start with purpose first, because without purpose, there is no point of having wealth or health. Where does purpose come from? If all that your life is about is eat, sleep, work – and you do this every day, then your life has no purpose whatsoever.

Now, let me begin with some good news! Every person on the face of the planet has equality concerning the time that the Good Lord gives us. The rich man or woman has exactly 168 hours a week to eat, sleep, work and accomplish purpose. The poor beggar on the street has exactly 168 hours a week to eat, sleep, and accomplish purpose. Because they typically don’t work, their purpose may simply be to figure out where their next meal will come from – or where they are going to sleep tonight.

Purpose comes from one of two sources: Internal or external. Some sense early in life – internally - what they want to become, or they have a particular gift (like music or art), so they figure out what their purpose is, and they act upon it for the rest of their life.

Purpose comes from without. This sense of purpose can come from a person’s awareness of their surroundings. Maybe they come from broken homes, or from alcoholic parents. They develop a purpose from their surroundings, and that purpose can be used for good – or evil, depending on the influences they had as a child usually.

The other sense of purpose that works from the external and internally is God-given, and here is how I know that to be true: Solomon, the wisest man ever to live, said this in Proverbs 10:6 (The MESSAGE Version): “Blessings accrue on a good and honest life, but the mouth of the

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