​Simplicity may very well be the best teacher… please understand I’m always talking to me FIRST.

“For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”

1 Corinthians 2:2 KJV

My heart is heavy as I observe things around me from a spiritual standpoint. This is on top of the recent challenges life has handed me. But when I see elements of Godlessness and the way in which it manifests itself, I find myself helpless. I fear that many believers feel the same way. It causes us to forget that the reason we received and tasted of God’s mercy and grace and became believers. We recognized two very important things. We were dead in sin. Jesus can save us. 

Perhaps the Good News is what, in our panic and frustration, we forgot saves ALL. Paul kept it simple– Christ and Him crucified. Why? Because anybody who has attempted to match wits with someone about spiritual matters can become frustrated, then cold, then callous and lose the main reason we started talking…because we LOVE them. 

I’m not saying hell fire and brimstone aren’t at times necessary. I just feel we may want to first keep it MILK. Christ and HIM crucified. That is the good news that leads others to sorrow, repentance, obedience and joy. Because when you understand why Christ, why He was crucified, what happened after and what that means for you, it should hit them in a different way. A much different way than we do it. We trust our words and eloquent speech way too much. We like to put our own spin on it. 

Just leave God’s spin on it. Let us also not wrangle with those whose heart are not willing to receive the good news. For there is someone else who is and is waiting for YOU to spend time telling them…

My heart remains heavy and in prayer…yet my goal is clear. I just pray my feet are ready to run…