Simple to Difficult
March 23, 2008 – 4:01 pmSome things are just too simple to be true. So much so that they become difficult. Difficultly simple. I wonder, did you ever meet with such a thing? Maybe you’ve never. Maybe you’re the simple type that just accepts it. Or maybe you’re the intellectual geek that can’t believe it’s true.
I’m not sure which category I’d end up in, but I do know a situation that is so simple that it becomes, strangely, too difficult for some to understand. Hint: It’s something to do with this past week. Hint#2: The bunnies and chocolate eggs … and the cross.
Yes, it’s the gospel - the message of the cross. A surprisingly simple matter that is often complicated, to the point that few understand what it’s really all about. But it all just comes down to that one famous verse: John 3:16 ‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.’
Now, can that get any simpler? One way to everlasting - eternal - life: ‘believe’. Not a particular amount of donations. Not a stack of completed read-through-the-Bible programs. Not years of Sundays spent on the hard church pews. Sure, all those are important, but by themselves, they will never get you to eternal life.
The message is simple. The way is even simpler - even if the price was terribly high (God’s only son was the price). Yet not many will get it. Too simple until it becomes too difficult.