ALWAYS CHASE AFTER THAT WHICH IS GOOD

THE K-I-S-S PRINCIPLE

(2Co 5:9) Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.

In Home Bible study last night, our anointed leader (a truly Godly man) pointed to the simplicity of the gospel. A true, pure, and beautiful simplicity that is well demonstrated in Romans:

(Rom 10:9) that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

There was a short silence in the room as we all pondered what was quoted. It really does not get much simpler.

(Rom 10:10) for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.

Remember in school, or perhaps in the military the principle of K-I-S-S, Keep it simple Sam! (or what ever end word your branch used)? Humans have this compulsion to overlook the SIMPLE and go straight for the COMPLICATED. WHY? Why do we do this? It has taken me years to finally look to the simple, to the literal before unleashing the complicated.

In the simplest of terms, what is our job as followers of Christ? ANSWER: To please Him. WHAT?, you say, it cannot be that simple! I respond: yes, it truly is THAT simple.



Oswald Chambers has pointed out in his writings that pleasing God does not require extensive spiritual experience, or mighty college degrees (Man's creation) or the ability to quote from memory thousands of bible verses in order that you might impress others around you. Chambers writes:



It means holding one's self to the high ideal year in and year out, not being ambitious to win souls or to establish churches or to have revivals, but being ambitious only to be "accepted of Him." It is not lack of spiritual experience that leads to failure, but lack of laboring to keep the ideal right.



How do you learn how to please God? That part is simple too. Read your Bible. Don't look to others, look to Him only. Make it your full focus in this life to please God, to be like Him and share the experience with others. Keep it SIMPLE.



Oswald Chambers closes this missive with the following:



My worth to God in public is what I am in private. Is my master ambition to please Him and be acceptable to Him, or is it something less, no matter how noble?

HAVE YOU READ YOUR BIBLE TODAY?