It's not that complicated.

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"The teaching of your word gives light, so even the simple can understand." (Psalm 119:130, NLT)

It's just too complicated!

Isn't that the way some people feel about the Bible? Isn't that the way some people feel about the church? Too many rules. Too little grace.

Then there are others that feel that there is too little depth, too little activism, too little teaching, too little holiness.

It would be untrue for me to say that everything in the Bible (or in church) is easy to understand. It would be just as untrue to make the leap in logic to say that, since there are parts of the Bible that are difficult to understand, therefore the Bible is too complicated to understand for regular people.

There is a famous quote attributed to Mark Twain: "It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."

Maybe that's the problem. According to this verse, the Bible gives "light" (revealed truth) even to the simple (the uneducated or uninformed). So, we don't get a pass on the simple truths because some of them are harder. The truth of the matter is that we sometimes are resistant to simple truth, not because we do not understand it, but because we do not like it.

Question: How might our lives be different if we started simply focusing on obeying God and following Jesus in the simple truths of the Bible?

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