Simple Faith Simplicity

Simple Faith

Simplicity

The mystery of God and life can give us a lot of questions

There are those who complicate faith by those questions

The Scriptures tell us

Not to leave the simplicity that is in Christ

Remember wisdom makes the truth simple

Wisdom takes knowledge, understanding and discernment

And puts it in simple terms

 

Simplicity

There are people who make life complicated.

They think they are wiser because they can

dream up issues that muddy up the water.

I was searching the internet the other day and

I ran across a man who runs a university.

He travels the world speaking and draws crowds.

I realized he was a dreamer.

Dreaming has its place if it leads us to productivity.

What I realized about this professor was

he fostered more questions than answers.

There are people who think they are wise because

they can bring up more questions than answers.

  

Questions that question everything even the truth.

I believe wisdom is common sense.

Wisdom is the truth in its simplest form.

Wisdom does not complicate the

issues it makes it understandable.

Many try to make faith complicated.

The Apostle Paul in the King James Version says…

  

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty,

so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:3 KJV  

Paul says watch out for the corruption

of “the simplicity that is in Christ”.

Remember the words of the serpent…

 “Did God really say?”

Where do the questions come from?

Paul’s words to Timothy

concerning those who are…

 “Always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth”

As self-centered people.

“People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.”

2 Timothy 3:2-5

I think we all know people who don’t

want to know the truth because the truth

will conflict with the way they live.

Those who do not believe there is a God

and those who do have questions.

Those questions should not

become our excuses to know the truth.

Paul says…

 Don’t leave the simplicity that is in Christ.

Let’s look for the simple ways to describe our faith.

Not to dumb down our faith but to

express our knowledge, understanding

and discernment in wisdom.

The simple truth.

If we are to do this we must first remove our

self and let the simple truth change us.

How simple is your faith?

The K.I.S.S. principle still works…

Keep It Simple Stupid

Scripture Reading

2 Corinthians 11:3 NIV

3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Timothy 3:1-9 NIV

3:1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.

6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth — men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.