BRENDYN.

In eastern Martial Arts like Kung Fu, Aikido Jutsu, and Tai Chi, there is a common understanding of balance. Students go through life-long training to achieve and control balance. One of my favorite Martial Arts is Aikido Jutsu, or just simply Aikido. It’s focus is not just to knock your enemy off balance, but to use their energy to do it. If you alter your enemy’s balance, you could gain control of them. A person’s balance is controlled by their center. So when defending against an enemy, your target is their center.

Like students of Martial Arts, all of our lives has a center. It influences our thinking, actions, decisions, choices, and so on. Our center is our soul. The condition of your soul affects the condition of your balance. Whatever I put the most energy (investment) in affects the condition of my soul. In Aikido, when an enemy strikes, the Aikido artist reverts that energy against the attacker. What’s amazing is that the Aikido artist never loses balance, because their center isn’t off.

Before I invest in anything, I need to identify my center and whether or not it’s balanced. The best way to identify where my center is located is by defining what I currently invest in the most.

God is not my center, and as a self-proclaimed disciple of Jesus, that is certainly a problem.