SIMPLE

1.) Listen to Jesus!

2.) Identify what "it" is that distracts you and complicates your life!

     - Jesus did what He did on the cross because He had focus; He was redeeming humanity.  The payoff would be so great at the other end, despite what it would take to get there.

     - What you are focused on makes all the difference.  Keeping your eye on frustrations and complications will take you to the wrong place in life. 

     - Mark 7:6b "this people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.  And in vain they worship Me."

3.) Beware of measuring others by complicated standards of your own making!

4.) Only ONE priority is needed; a focus on Christ!

     - Keep your eyes on the cross, no ME!  Focus in the joy that is set before you.

The complications of life will disappear.  Don't look 100 different directions; know what God has set before you.  There will be hard times, but with a focus on Christ, it is SIMPLE!  May you have singular sight - to see Him and to hear.

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I am not skilled to understand
What God has willed, what God has planned
I only know at His right hand
Stands one who is my Savior

I take Him at His word and deed
Christ died to save me; this I read
And in my heart I find a need
Of Him to be my savior

That He would leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior

My Savior loves, My Savior lives
My Savior’s always there for me
My God: He was, my God; He is
My God is always gonna be

Yes, living, dying, let me bring
My strength, my solace from this spring;
That He who lives to be my King
Once died to be my Savior

That He would leave His place on high
And come for sinful man to die
You count it strange, so once did I
Before I knew my Savior
My Savior loves, My Savior lives
My Savior’s always there for me
My God: He was, my God; He is
My God is always gonna be 

Aaron Shust - My Savior My God