He Made It Simple!
Partnership with God is much simpler than you think.
Dear #DailyFollower,
Introduction
In most cases, to get valuable things in life, we must overcome several complex and sometimes complicated hurdles to prove that we have paid the appropriate price for the value we eventually receive.
Two Examples:
An 8-year-old child who dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon must spend anywhere between 18-21 years at the minimum to train to become a neurosurgeon. The price here is time (and time, they say, is money) and actual cash for education fees. To extract the value that being a neurosurgeon brings, this child (then teenager, young adult, and full-grown adult as time passes) must pay the price in time to access a neurosurgeon.
Extracting any precious mineral, refining it and distributing it brings tremendous value to any businessperson. However, to achieve the dream of accessing this immense value, the business person must do at least four things; I’m sure there are more:
invest capital (cash, equity, and/or debt),
get various experts who can make the dream a reality,
build the extraction, processing, and packaging utilities required and
build the distribution networks to take the packaged mineral to market.
The business of extracting brings enormous value back to any businessperson.
However, it costs a significant amount of money, a depth of exclusive technical expertise that costs some more money to acquire, and time (both to build the utilities to get a commercial version of the mineral and ongoing time to produce a commercial version) at the least.
These two examples demonstrate how easily it can be to think that every truly valuable thing in life comes only after we’ve paid a significant price.
The greater the value, the more significant the price paid to acquire the value.
The Upside Down Way
In God’s Kingdom, we acquire great value by simply believing.
Unfortunately, because of our lived experiences where life trains our minds to believe that no good thing comes easy, we tend to hold that there must be more to do than only believe.
With God, things are much simpler than we can imagine.
How do I know?
Christ said it when asked about how to do the works of God. In John 6:28-29, EXB, He said:
28 The people asked Jesus, “What ·are the things God wants us to do [should we do to work the works of God]?”
29 Jesus answered, “·The work God wants you to do is this [This is the work of God]: Believe the One he sent.”
How simple! Right?!
Yes, it’s the Kingdom’s upside-down way. The only cost to doing God's work—work that brings great value, like those Christ did in His ministry on earth—is to believe only in the One God sent.
Conclusion
Adam and Eve believed the lie that they needed to do more to be like God, which led to the fall of humanity.
All we need to be the witnesses God can count on is to believe in the One God sent.
While believing sounds simple, abandoning all we know and have experienced takes a lot to choose “only believe”.
Only believe is the mantra of a daily follower committed to God’s making process. Consistently believing this transforms a follower into a witness.
Would you choose God’s simple upside-down way over the complicated way our lived experience dictates?
I recommend you choose simple and watch and see how God makes you into who He can count on.
Philippians 2:13, EXB
13 because God is working in you ·to help you want to do and be able to do [both to will/desire and to work] what pleases him.
Let God continue doing His work in you; you’ll be better off in the long run.
Yours faithfully,
John, a #DailyFollower
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