You can live a balanced life like Jesus

 “And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.” (Luke 2:52 NASB)

Jesus kept increasing

In the passage above, which was written about Jesus when he was twelve years-old, we learn that He increased in four areas: in wisdom (mentally), in stature (physically), in favor with God (spiritually), and in favor with man (socially). Jesus was balanced in all four areas of His life, and we can be too.

• Wisdom – “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.” (James 1:5 ESV)
• Stature – “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.” (Eph. 4:13 KJV)
• Favor with God – “Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!” (Psalm 90:17 ESV)
• Favor with man – “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.” (Psalm 84:11 ESV)

Therefore

“And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.” (Job 8:7 ESV)

“Until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.” (Eph. 4:13-16 ESV)