One characteristic of most of us is that we are experts at complicating the simple. Perplexity is most certainly a part of life, but by no means is it the whole. The rule should be simplicity, with perplexity being the exception. I’m afraid the devil has won in many of our lives by getting us to be removed from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Our Lord dealt with some of life’s most difficult problems, but you will not find Him making them complex to the point of driving Him, or those around Him, to frustration. He always used sanctified reasoning; He started with the basic fundamental premise, and then worked toward the more problematic. In other words, He never used algebra for the answer to a problem, when simple math would do.
The old-time evangelist, Vance Havner, along with his wife, was traveling by bus to a revival meeting in the hills of Tennessee. While at a rest-stop at a little country store, his wife noticed from her window an old scrub-woman hanging up her wash at the house next to the store. She commented to her husband, “Vance, look at that dear old soul; she doesn’t know the rest of the world exists.” To which he replied, “Well for goodness sakes, don’t tell her!”
Profundity can fall under the category of simplicity; it need not be perplexing.
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