Simple

"If you love me, you will obey what I command." (John 14:15)

Love-Follow-Trust are simple acts everyone is capable of. Love one another is within everyone's ability to do. Follow a good idea, plan or person is quite easy for the young, the old, the student or scholar, the rich, and the poor. Trust is an assurance that comforts, sustains, and gives us peace. Since these three acts offer such satisfaction, then why aren't there more people practicing them?

The simple truth is made plain to us all when we do them. We experience inner joy, security in our daily travels, and confidence as a result of the placement and the acting upon the dreams, hopes, and future. It really is simple.

Hate and pride lie on the opposite ends and are complex. The effort and continual exertion of energy to perpetuate these opposites of love, follow, and trust ought to make their popularity the least of options humans would choose. Yet the three, hate, pride, and lies dominate the horizon. I guess it's not simple after all. God who is love, Jesus who said, "Follow me," and the Spirit who simply says "believe, do not rely on the hate, pride, and lies."

Do not rely on your own understanding. It must be that we are the problem, the hate-pride-lie, and we humans do not like simple. It's a sad thing to choose poorly. Life could be so simple, love, follow, trust - ahhh, that's so nice. As for me, I am choosing to act on love, to move towards following Jesus and surrendering to God's truth - trust in the Lord with all your heart - the world's way is to rob, steal, destroy, but simple faith came to give life - full."

Love,

Chappy

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