I believe faith is simple. It's easy to try and make our faith complicated. Why do we do this? To make ourselves think we've got it figured out while others don't, to exclude, perhaps. Jesus says we should come to him with faith like a child. Simple faith.
I was reading a book set in South Africa. The people in the book had simple faith. Here are a couple of my favorite quotes from the book.
"I am very happy because I work for God. Even when there is no money, God can pay me. Everything we have, it comes from God."
A family with no food and no money:
"My wife was crying to me all the time." I say, "My wife, stop crying to me! Cry to Jesus!"
"You say we have run out of food and money. I say we have run out of faith."
Faith is a gift. An undeserved gift. I don't want to complicate that idea.
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