Simplify and Joy-i-fy!

                Have you had your Joy Juice today?  Simply take the time to spend with Jesus and you’ll find your personal serving of joy.

                In his book, Blessings Out of Buffetings , Alan Repath wrote: “In these days there is scarcely anything that is simple; everything is so complicated. What am I to believe? What is right? What is wrong? In every area of life the old simplicities have vanished from us until even this word SIMPLE has changed, and I don’t think people like being called simple anymore because it has an association that is unpleasant.” 

                Let’s ponder that statement for a minute. If someone described you as a “simple” person, would  you consider it a compliment or an insult?  Before you answer, let’s think back over the last several weeks, when we heard eulogies, news reports and documentaries on the life of Billy Graham.  Often the word “simple” was used to describe his life.  He was a “simple” man that was content with little material wealth & possessions and valued his God and his family. He preached “simple” messages around a “simple” truth: “God sent Jesus to die for you and me, and we need to accept Him as our Savior.” He never insisted on anything other than spreading the “simple” message of God’s love.

                Great men and women of God should be “simple”; their lives should be uncluttered and “determined to know Him more”.  (Philippians 3:10)

                Let’s choose to simplify and “joy-i-fy!