it's His simplicity

A very new friend of mine, as of last night, said a few things that have really stuck this urgency in my heart. I’m not even really sure if it’s urgency or the fact that we were just both in love with the same Jesus that has captivated our hearts and moved my heart into this transition. I know this may not make sense, and it doesn’t really in my head either but something in me last night began to fall more in love with the simplicity of how Jesus asked us to live. She said, “it’s the American way to complicate things, when really Jesus said I want you to love me and out of that love you will love others.” And it all really flows from that, to what we do, to how we serve, to how we give and spend our money. Well, its all the love of something, right?

We beg and beg and beg Jesus just to tell us His perfect will for our lives. We sit and that may be all we say to Him when we find that time to set aside to pray. But Jesus, in His goodness and grace, is patient to teach and show us that He cares so much more about our relationship with Him than what we do.

So the Bible really IS true when it says that we are FREE in Him. Yeah, so if the next chapter in your life is not what Jesus has best for you, sooooo what if you mess up, if you make a mistake? You can figure it out with Jesus.

Because Jesus cares so much more about YOU than He does about what you do. He created you as a human, therefore mistakes are just bound to happen, but when we are so in love with our Maker, even when we mess up, even when we may not see it His way, we are still His. Because the only thing that matters, the only thing that matters in those moments is that we have Him.

When its about stripping all else away and Him giving us the identity that we are His, that our eyes are so fixed on Him, somehow Jesus is no longer defined by a dollar bill.

It’s His simplicity that I love so much about Him, and it’s us who complicates the rest.

If we choose to walk away from that freedom, then we don’t know how much He really loves us.

We would be consumed by Him.