Today we're going to explore the actual discipline of simplicity by answering questions like

what does it mean to simplify life?

How would Jesus have us actually simplify our lives?

How can embracing simplicity enrich our day-to-day experience?

May your heart and mind be open to all the wisdom and goodness God has for you today

and may you find comfort in making Jesus your one necessary thing.

Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our scripture today from 2 Corinthians 112 reads,

For our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience,

that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom, but

by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

Often we are kept from living lives marked by the joy and peace of our Heavenly Father because of our continual pursuit for more.

Humanity's first sin was pursuing more than God intended for us,

and the enemy continues to entice us with that temptation today.

A core value of the world is more, more money, more

fame, more friends, more success, more happiness, more possessions, more of anything because we feel dissatisfied with our lives.

We're constantly grabbing for that which will never fully satisfy in the present or lead us to a lifestyle of

continual satisfaction. So Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 112 for our our boast is this, the testimony of our conscience, that we

behaved in the world with simplicity and gondly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom, but by the

grace of God, and supremely so toward you.

Simplicity is a God-given discipline that prunes the dead branches of waste,

that effectually deplete us of the energy, time, and

provision with which God has blessed us.

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