Live Simply

Ok .ok. So I’m very aware of how long it has been since my last blog, but by no means do I take my very long leave of absence lightly. I think it would be safe to say that I have found myself after a long leave of absence completely grateful for those of you who blog, maybe not consistently but you probably don’t wait 4 months to write a blog. I tip my hat to those who do write regularly or less than 4 months apart! This is what I have realized since I have started this blog. Let’s just be totally real because after all I did promise you vulnerability right? Let me know if this sounds familiar? OH yeah!!! I made this awesome blog with this awesome font, with awesome colors and I’m going to get these awesome songs and play them on my blog, and then I’m going to win the best blog award and write in it every day and just soak up my awesomeness that I have created! Yeah we have all thought it at some point, think back to one of the first days of school; you have to get new pencils, pens, note books, a new backpack, dry erase markers, agenda, tabs, pretty much the entire store. Of course the new pencils will improve your writing; you pull the... well this is the only pencil on the face of the earth that will make me a better writer!! The new notebooks can’t just be cardboard because who does that? I mean come on...everyone knows that the floral notebooks makes your IQ go up. How dare you use the same backpack you wore last year, it is social suicide!! And how can you forget the markers, agenda and tabs? THIS is the year that you will be the most organized you have ever been in your entire life; you are going to write all your assignments down, tab all the pages in your text book because, DUH you’re going to read it cover to cover and then copy the entire glossary 5 times. To top it all off I’m going to be on Oprah for being the most organized person in the world and have an entire spread in 17 magazine. We have all done it at some point in our life, we totally script our way into thinking we are the best thing since sliced bread. Better yet you invented sliced bread! If we are being really honest here we do it with our relationship with the Lord. If only I can get a new bible then I will be able to read it cover to cover, because we have totally convinced ourselves that the bible is more effective by its color or design. News Flash, it’s the same wither it has cardboard pages in plain black ink or if it is Leopard print with purple ink. Before I go any further I want you to know I am totally preaching to the choir here! I have thought these things probably more than once. If only I could do this bible study then I would really be mature, because after all I know what bible studies best and not the Lord right? HA No. It’s sad but so true we think that somehow bigger and better is going to strengthen our relationship with the Lord more than if we just have the status quo. We as believers get wrapped up in the now and flashy that we completely lose sight of what the Lord is doing. So how do we fix it? How do we live simply in a world where the word simple has been practically omitted from everything in life? It’s actually black and white; you either trust the Lord or you simply don’t. You’re probably thinking you’re not seeing the 500 other ways to look at the situation. Yeah your right I’m not, because the reality is why would you want to throw in 500 different answers when there could be 2? It’s like a multiple choice test, if a teacher gave you one question on the final and you had 500 different choice with only one correct answer would you not be so overwhelmed by the amount of possible answers that you would actually freak out and just guess? But if there was one question that only had two possible answers how much time and effort would be saved by having a simple one or the other choice? A lot of times we get so upset with the Lord that He does not give us an answer we completely shut off and walk away. When in reality He is giving us the simplest answer in the history of answers, trust me or don’t trust me. We don’t need flashy things we don’t need everything at our beck and call, do we want them? YES! Does the Lord bless us? YES! But with 500 things coming at us at once and wanting the biggest and best there are so many more ways to be in bondage. By no means am I saying that it is bad to have nice things or many things, but there is a way to live simply with many blessings. As much as we all think the Lord is complicated, we can remind our self mostly in scripture that he is simple. He Loves us, He is Joyful, He is Peaceful, He is Patient, He is Kind, He is Good, He is Faithful, He is Gentle, and He is in Control. How much simpler can you get? Living simply is not an easy thing to do in a world that is full of complicated Orders. By reminding ourselves each day, multiple times a day that the Lord is simple, we will reflect in our everyday lives and soon begin to change from complicated sinful beings to simple sinful being (Sorry to burst your bubble, but we will always be sinful) just think if we were simple how much our relationship with the Lord will change? It’s simple, Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sin. We want to be like Jesus right? What better way than to live simply in Christ?