Spiritual Formation~

Note: The following is an excerpt from our free study download called, Simplicity - To Be Free. Read more about this download here .

The Simplicity of Jesus

The heart of simplicity is an uncompromising devotion to Jesus. It is to love him more than anything else. Jesus puts it like this, "Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 10:39 TNIV).

We enter the gateway to simplicity with a decision to give up the unnecessary stuff and the needless activity for Jesus. Then we are free to focus on the one needful thing.

Simplicity of life is an inward lack of concern for possessions and activities that are available to us in our day-to-day world. It's a point of view more than an action. Such is the simplicity of Christ. As Jesus explains, "For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own" (Matthew 6:32-34 TNIV).

The Son of God was able to keep it simple. Jesus only said what he heard the Father saying and only did what he saw the Father doing. He did nothing more and nothing less. The kingdom of heaven was his only concern.

Copyright © 2010, Calvin R. Wulf and Lisa Are Wulf

Read more about our free download study called, Simplicity - To Be Free, here .

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