It's Simple...

Have you ever looked at a word so many times that it becomes like a foreign language? Ever said a word so many times that it eventually sounds like gibberish? Ever heard a word so often that over time it became nonsense?

 "Simple” is one of those words to me. Typing it just now, I had to double check the spelling.

It seems to me that the simple things in life should be, well, simple. But I’ve discovered that some of the simplest things in life are the most difficult to grasp, and to apply. At least, we try to make them that way.

We like to take the most simple concepts and make them nearly impossible to understand and grasp.

But the greatest reality of all – the Gospel – is perhaps the one we confuse the most. At its heart, it is one of the simplest things to explain. But we’ve confounded and confused it with so much misinformation, misunderstanding, perversion or flat out falsehoods that too many people have no concept of what it really is. So I want to take the rest of this post to lay it out, simply... 

• God has an amazing plan for all of our lives.
• Because of our sin, we’re separated from God and thus unable to live out that plan on our own.
• God loves us so much that He bridged the gap, the chasm between us and Him by sending  His son, Jesus Christ, to live righteously, die sacrificially, and rise bodily.
• It’s our choice to accept that reality or not.

That’s it. Of course, the repercussions are towering, because they are eternal. And we don’t want things that are that important to be so simple. But the truth is that the Gospel is simple. And it’s simply up to us what we do with it.

So, what are you going to do with the simplest, yet most profound concept in the universe? The choice is yours.