Simple

What is the secret to life? I think it is simplicity. How often we go on our way and seek things after the many things that we think we need to have to make life worth living. However, it is really a simple life to live. We need very little of those supposed "needs." We feel like life is this great mystery to be solved by our trial and error, by our desperate search for something. However, God has really already revealed the secret to us in a very simple manner.

I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God's great mystery. All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else. And we've been shown the mystery! I'm telling you this because I don't want anyone leading you off on some wild-goose chase, after other so-called mysteries, or "the Secret."

Colossian 2:2-4

When we realize the secret to life is found in Christ, we can rest. We can be confident that we have all the riches and treasures that we need because they all are found in Christ. We no longer have to search after any other secret or mystery about how life works. We can stop searching for happiness and allow God to work. We can live in simplicity.

A devout life does bring wealth, but it's the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. Since we entered the world penniless and will leave it penniless, if we have bread on the table and shoes on our feet, that's enough.

I Timothy 6:6-8

We come into this world with nothing - or "no thing" - and we will leave this world with nothing - or "no thing." We are called into a life of wealth that is just being simply ourselves with God. Our job is not accumulation of stuff, but realtionship with God. Look at your life today and see how you could live more simply before God. What are the distractions that you have in your life that keep you from experiencing the richness of simplicity before God? Live without them for a while and minimize distractions. Let yourself just be. You do not have to have the most stuff or win everything. Your role is to just be. That is simple.

Namaste'