Simplicity….essentials?
The fall of man as recorded in the Book of Genesis is such a tragic story. Man, living in a perfect world, no sickness, no death, no fear and the blessing of being able to walk and talk with God in the cool of the evenings.
But that all fell apart when Adam and Eve decided to try and live independently, apart from God and take matters into their own hands – it ended in sin and death.
As I have grown older in the Lord and in earth years, my life has taken an amazing track. It has become very simple in its path. Serve God with all my life in every way I can and be totally dependent upon Him for everything!
Prayer, that is taking time to be alone with God, to talk with Him and to simply be in His presence is now where all matters of my life are centred. For the problem with the world, with each and every man woman, boy and girl is the issue of sin. This is the heart of the matter for everything! Which is why our Lord Jesus Christ came and suffered a brutal death on the cross at Calvary to get to the heart of the problem, which is the problem of the heart.
Man today, still attempts to fix things their way. We have invented philosophies by the score and hypotheses on all matters to do with where we came from and why we are here. All such beliefs denying the existence of God. We are more educated, wealthier and “wiser” yet the world continues to spiral downward in a violent and selfish whirlpool.
Whatever your situation, whatever battles or struggles you find yourself in, may I urge you to take a step into a quiet place and bring everything, everything, to the Lord as a matter of prayer. When you do that, you are acknowledging to God that you too have stripped away the non essentials, and now are living a life totally dependent upon God for and in everything!
Your life will change dramatically as you start living in this manner. God will put your life and everything attached to it in its perfect place, in its right place. You will find that a lot of things you used to once fret or worry over will never cause you to do so ever again as you strip away the unimportant, the non essentials.
May I urge you to live your Christianity out in such a way that your life will be so simplified, so different to the way and style of the world, that you will sense God’s power and grace in all that you do.
Will you today free yourself from ropes and chains that you needlessly are tied down with and shackled to? And know this, God loves you, He suffered and died for you, and He is coming back to take you personally to be with Him forever in His Glory!
Jesus said to a tired and stressed woman called Martha these words, Luk 10:42 “But one thing is needed….The Book of Revelation puts its so simply….Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.