John 8:23-24 Jesus said, “You’re tied down to the mundane; I’m in touch with what is beyond your horizons. You live in terms of what you see and touch. I’m living on other terms. I told you that you were missing God in all this. You’re at a dead end. If you won’t believe I am who I say I am, you’re at the dead end of sins. You’re missing God in your lives.”

Have you ever felt tied to the mundane? Exchanging Life for some sort of tangible or worldly security/affirmation? It is so easy to get caught up in going through the motions and meeting the world’s expectations that God and Life become basically a side note, like choosing an extra topping on a pizza, one can take it or leave it. It is the ultimate irony: We give up Life in search of Life; we replace God with anything and everything except the One that can actually satisfy and bring Life… and we ache with discontentment…

I want to share something I learned, and it was a hard lesson – but it really helped me understand a piece of God’s character… His simplicity. 

If our next step sounds anything like, “If only I had….. then it will be good,” we are off to a dead end. There is nothing that we can ‘see and touch’ that will ever, ever, ever satisfy us – we were designed for a much simpler solution… We don’t need to buy anything. We don’t need to change jobs (maybe He will lead us there someday). We don’t need some drastic life change or new something… We simply need Him – and in any and every situation, He can bring peace and joy. 

Philippians 4:11-14 Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. I don’t mean that your help didn’t mean a lot to me—it did. It was a beautiful thing that you came alongside me in my troubles.