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SIMPLICITY

respectjc | October 05, 2008 20:05

sim·plic·i·ty       [sim-plis-i-tee] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun, plural -ties.

1. the state, quality, or an instance of being simple.
2. freedom from complexity, intricacy, or division into parts: an organism of great simplicity.
3. absence of luxury, pretentiousness, ornament, etc.; plainness: a life of simplicity.
4. freedom from deceit or guile; sincerity; artlessness; naturalness: a simplicity of manner.
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 I was sitting and enjoy my Pastors sermon this morning on defining who Jesus is, and what He is and who He is to us. Sorry, Pastor, but the Holy Spirit hit me with the word, Simplicity. Many people are making it so hard to know who Jesus is, and who He can be to us.

The people I work with, when I do try to share, make Him such a hard person to figure out. How much more simple can it get, as Pastor Bobby said this morning. He was God, who came to earth as Man, and then died upon the cross for our sins, and went to reign with His Father in Heaven, until that day that we will join Him in the air. Now how hard can that be.

Just look at the definition of simplicity above. 1. the state, quality, or an instance of being simple. When Jesus was born to Mary and Joseph, how much in an instant can you be simple. A little baby, that cries, smiles, and even poops like little babies, but yet this is God, came down into Man. People think that there was this miraculous big bang, (haha) and there came Jesus into this world. To me that would be harder to believe and understand, than a child coming into this world. Simplicity at its best. You can continue on this one with the definition from number two also. Freedom from complexity, intracicy, or divided into parts. Now we know that babies do not come with instruction booklets, or maybe some do, but it is something that is planted in the hearts and minds of each of us, "How to take care of a baby". Jesus is not complex. He was human. He cried, He laughed, He sang, and I guarantee you, He even played tricks on the disciple. Nothing complex or intricant about that. Just a man, God, who loves each of us, and only wants us to love Him. How much more simple can it be? But yet, people, and some churches make it harder than that. You must take these steps, you must go back for steps, and look around the corner, and do not pass go, on your way to jail.  My Bible tells me that it is simple to know Jesus. Romans 10:13, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord, shall be saved." 

The third definition of simplicity talks of lack of luxury. How much lack of luxury can there be that a baby being born in a stable full of animals. If you call wood chips, hay, animals, and the smell of animal poo all around? From the luxury people I have met at work, they would be disgraced to be in such a place. But yet, the Savior of the world came to us in a non-luxurious way, a simple way. I would like to have thought though as the animals stood around, they thought they had received and seen a luxury that only a few witnessed, the birth of Jesus.

And I really love the fourth definition. Freedom from deceit or guile, sincere, natural. This young baby, Jesus, came into this world without sin, and remained without sin for his life, so that He could take our sin upon Him, and take it and get rid of it. Now how much more simple can it be.

It is all so simple. Accept Him as He truly is, and He will accept You as you truly are. Broken, down-hearted, in pain, both physically and spiritually and mentally, downcast, lost and full of sin. But yet call upon His name, that Precious Name Of Jesus!!!, and He will take all that away from You, and throw it as far as "East is to West", never more for you to take up and carry again. But then, many do, and many struggle, but yet He waits with open arms to pick us up, dust us off, and start again.  

My prayer is that you make it simple, if you are going through a Hard time. Just give it all to Jesus, and cry out His name, and He will save you. Not only spiritually, but physically, away from the things that have you bound.

In His Grip and Loving It,

Jeff

 

   
   
   
   
   

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