Simplify ...

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"Philip said, 'Lord, show us the Father, and we will be satisfied.' Jesus replied, 'Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you still don’t know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father!'" (John 14:8-9, New Living Translation)

As I was reading this morning in "My Utmost for His Highest", I was struck by these words:

“Our Lord must be repeatedly astounded at us—astounded at how “un-simple” we are. It is our own opinions that make us dense and slow to understand, but when we are simple we are never dense; we have discernment all the time. Philip expected the future revelation of a tremendous mystery, but not in Jesus, the Person he thought he already knew. The mystery of God is not in what is going to be—it is now, though we look for it to be revealed in the future in some overwhelming, momentous event.”

We really do tend to complicate things, don't we? We keep waiting for some big, significant, profound experience where God makes everything clear and everything falls into place. All the while, we are missing daily simple grace. We are oblivious to the presence of Jesus while we are waiting for Him to show off in some dramatic display.

Question: What could you do today to "simplify" and rest in the security of the presence of Jesus?

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