Truly I tell you, whoever says to this mountain, Be lifted up and thrown into the sea! and does not doubt at all in his heart but believes that what he says will take place, it will be done for him.
—Mark 11:23We say that we live in a complicated society, but I believe we are the complicated ones, and we complicate life.
I don't think life is so complicated; I think it is our approach to life that is complicated.
Serving God should not be complicated, and yet it can become very complicated and complex. I believe we are the ones who make it that way. Think about the simple, uncomplicated approach a child has to life. Something that children seem to have in common is this: they are going to enjoy themselves if at all possible.
They are carefree and completely without concern. And they believe what they are told. It is their nature to trust unless they have had an experience in that area that taught them otherwise.
Jesus wants us to grow and mature in our behavior, but He also wants us to remain childlike with an attitude of trust and dependence toward Him. Remember, He told us in John 3:16, "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life" (NKJV, emphasis mine). All He wants to hear us say is, "I believe it." When God says something to you in your heart or when you read something in the Bible, you should say: "I believe it. If God says that He will prosper me, I believe it.
If He says that I will reap if I give, I believe it. If He says to forgive my enemies, even though it doesn't make any sense to me, I believe it—and, instead of going to beat them up, I am going to do what He says. If He says to pray for my enemies, I believe it, and I am going to do it. If He says to call 'things that are not as though they were,' I believe it, and I am going to do it."
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