SIMPLIFY THE WALK

I believe we need to simplify our Walk with Jesus, and stop making it complicated and unattainable, religious, intellectual and informational rather than organic and natural. I am certainly not opposing study and preparation for what we believe. Our lives just need to reflect normal transformed living.

Jesus simply said, “Come follow me.” About 25 times he used this phrase to invite others to walk with him. This is our invitation as well. By walking, listening and observing the Kingdom way…we become that way.

By making additional demands for fasting, prayer, a daily liturgy, daily Bible reading, a cell in the desert…or whatever (though they all can be valuable), they are additions to “Come follow me.”

We need to stop the stiffness of religious ritual and observance and relax in relationship. To simplify the walk is to daily be involved in the walk of touching, feeling, seeing, being and knowing what our neighbors and we are going through. If the inflexibility and un-malleable religious structure continues as something organizational instead of a “way of living” with a Person, we will soon have only “dead works” because our hearts are dead. As Hebrews 6:1-2 teaches us, “Therefore, leaving the elementary principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.”  We simply walk it out.

“Come… follow me.” Jesus