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 boast is this, the testimony of our conscience,

that we behaved in the world with simplicity and gonely 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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