In Jerry Johnston’s column in the Deseret News, August 23, 2008, he shared this advice from his father: “The middle way is a waste of time.” He was speaking about the area between good and evil—the gray space between black and white. “When the choices are black and white, life’s too short to choose gray.”
We need to know who we are and follow one path or the other; to choose God or the world. We can’t really be successful in-between the two; we can’t have both and be truly happy. It’s impossible to balance two things that oppose each other as much as God and the world.
When we live our lives looking for the best of both worlds, we get neither. To have one foot on God’s side of the fence and one foot in the world will only cause us to lose our balance or get high-centered on the fence post.
If we think we can be worldly while staying close to God we are mistaken. Spending too much time doing things of the world may very well push us farther away from God.
We must pick a side, commit to it, and get off the fence to find real happiness and balance in life.
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