There is no doubt that life is the type of thing that will always surprise you. Just when you think you have the solution to a problem, for instance the enigma of losing the remote, the answer come flying at you, whizzing past your head and brain activity, causing you to therefore see the unexpected. The remote is in your hand. It was not under the couch, or in the couch, or in the pantry, or in the trash, although I am sure that these incidents have occurred. No. The answer to life’s puzzles, which go beyond the simple quest to find the “zapper” are often right in front of us. It’s to bad we search to hard when life, in reality, is simple.
To be honest, if we lived in reality the world as we know it would not exist. Our little “dream” that we pattern to is not even a touch of what is real. Reality is simply defined by God, and by the Word of God, which is God. (John 1:1) Reality is God. If we lived in reality we would not need to give to the widow and the orphan, because the widow and the orphan would not exist. Sin would not either. Who knows where we would be. But since the fall of man we have turned everything to a helter-sketler, Picasso like scope. The God view now seems twisted and upside down. The dysfunction is functional and the functional is dysfunction, putting the validity of God at the bottom of all thought; A scary place to be no doubt, yet as it was said before answers are simply simple.
Interestingly enough simplicity has now found itself in everything. Spiritually perhaps, but even in the visible world it has taken over: Designs for clothes, rooms, homes, colors, ads, products, labels, magazines and so on. Don’t tell me you have not noticed. People want something clean and to the point, with no funny business and doctored speeches. This comes to everything including the church and what God is speaking. What I love about this is that God never really complicated things. He never beat around the bush. He spoke plain and simple, and if people were dumb enough to catch his drift than it was, in my opinion sad. Jesus himself was simple. He was who he was and he brought it to the table, which consequently is God’s table.
It’s funny how we use that expression with such vain attitudes. “How do you feel about Rodger?” “Oh, well he is fine, you know he brings a lot to the table.” It makes no sense. First of all this table would have to be huge, and second of all it would not matter if he did bring anything to the table. (But I really don’t know where I was going with that.)
What I love about the Word is that it does not try and prove the existence of God, but it just simply declares it. There is no scientific chart to map out any sort of random timeline of God. He was just there. It was as simple as that.
Since God is so simple he makes it simple for us. We don’t really take the time to think how simple it is due to our inept way of complicating everything, despite our hunger for the “simple life.” God asks for us to rely on him in all seasons. The command not difficult, it in bold letters, sometimes red, and yet we find it so hard to truly rely on him. A moment comes and goes, things go from good to bad, from bad to worse, and you find yourself in a pit of sin because you fill the void with all the carnal desires known to man, when in reality the remote was with you the whole time. It was not where you thought it would be. We must be dependent on God. Independence only comes from the dependence on God. Without it we over complicate creation itself.
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