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Simplicity
I have, of late, been thinking about the simplicity of the Gospel. It is so easy to get caught up in the so-called “higher revelations” and forget that God speaks the language of children… He is impressed by child-like faith.
And really sometimes what we call spiritual ‘revelation’ is nothing more than just human intelligence at work. Some people have a much higher intelligence-quotient than others, they can think fast and in a flash of a second they can link-up Scripture, history, general knowledge, predictive deduction and a little psychology to come up with a stunning ‘revelation’.
Simplicity
We love to hear these revelations but I find that the only revelation that changes you truly is the one you've had yourself because of your walk with God. People who go around chasing revelations from minister to minister or church to church will never grow into responsible Christians.
Simplicity
I look at how Jesus began His ministry and I’m tempted to say that I too have at some point made this grave error. The “higher” things don’t build character… it is the simple things. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth… blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy… blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God… blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God… be merciful as your heavenly Father is merciful.” These words are so simplistic and yet they have such a ring of power to them. Everything that we are as God’s sons should be built on this foundation.
But I too have found myself seeking ‘wisdom’ in empty religious sayings and notion… away from this life-giving simplicity. So sad that religious rhetoric has replaced God’s life of simplicity in us.
Simplicity
So many times we find ourselves in a land I call Eisegesia… reading too much into and over-interpreting the Biblical text. I’d rather learn to be merciful, kind and loving than to know the word “mercy” in Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin and Ancient Nubian.
Simplicity
My heart yearns for simplicity of a God who would choose to entrust His own birth into the hands of a simple teenage girl… a God who would choose to come to Earth to show His creation the way of love instead of showing them how He balanced the equations of planetary centripetal force and angular velocity.
Simplicity
“But I say to you, Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, so that you may become sons of your Father in Heaven. For He makes His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax-collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax-collectors do so? Therefore be perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.” – Jesus Christ (Mat 5:44-48)
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Simplicity
If all of religion was Matthew 5:44-48… it would be sufficient. May I learn to cause the sun of my blessing to rise upon the evil and the good, and the rain of my peace to water the just and the unjust… just like my Father. For what good is my Christianity if the world finds in me a judge instead of an impartial blessor of the just and unjust alike.
Simplicity
It eludes complicated hearts to find a nesting place in brokenness.
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