Walking simple and free

I shouldn’t be writing on my blog today, I have a lot to do. But I just wanted to share about simple living and how counter-cultural that is. Jesus just wanted us to live this day and not worry about tomorrow. A book I recently read, the one with the provocative title that you would love anyway, (warning: PDF file) talks about trusting Jesus: don’t you have what you need to make it through today? Why worry about the future?

Trusting God means not needing a person or thing in my life in order to make God more real to me. That’s not to say that Father doesn’t sometimes give us people or things when it seems good to him. I need to realize however, that if he hasn’t given me something then I don’t need it. That’s a faith journey.

I don’t need fellowship or money or retirement funds or insurance or a job or religious icons or “spiritual covering” (what the heck is that) or meetings or preaching of God’s word, or somewhere to lay my head even. All I need is him. Simple and free. Daily bread.

My friend Jim read the book whose title shall not be mentioned (warning: PDF file) and it really had an impact on him. Isn’t that cool? Maybe you want to read it too.

Tags: counter-cultural, freedom, Jesus, simple, so you don't want to go to church anymore