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The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

How to Simplify Your Life

The Elisabeth Elliot Podcast

The Elisabeth Elliot Foundation

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

This talk was originally presented on May 19, 1992 in W. Peabody, MA.

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0:00.0

How to simplify your life? Why are you laughing?

0:11.0

Why are you laughing?

0:20.0

Because you don't need to simplify yours or is it a question that you actually ask yourself? Is there anyone feeling that life has gotten too complicated?

0:25.0

Two or three of you out there, I guess.

0:30.0

Would you like to get rid of the clutter in your life?

0:35.0

Is there any of us that doesn't struggle with clutter?

0:40.0

I seem to spend my life trying to get rid of clutter.

0:45.0

And every day it comes in in one form or another, if it's not the grocery bags with all the jars and the stuff that you have to figure out how to get rid of.

0:54.6

It's the mail and all sorts of boxes and packages and things that keep coming.

1:01.6

But if our lives are really cluttered to the point that we are feeling a little desperate

1:07.2

and drowning at times, then something is wrong,

1:13.0

is very radically wrong.

1:16.0

What is it exactly?

1:20.0

Well, I think if you analyze it, it probably comes down to the fact that you've never really

1:29.8

figured out what you want in life.

1:34.0

Aristotle said all men seek happiness.

1:40.0

I would agree.

1:42.0

Everybody wants to be happy. But where we seek it and how we seek it, of course, makes a very big difference.

1:50.0

Sometimes young people come to me with difference.

1:52.8

Sometimes young people come to me with a question, very often they come to me with this question,

1:57.5

but how can I know the will of God?

2:01.1

I really want to be a good Christian, I want to learn to know God, I want to do his

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