Embracing Simplicity: Finding True Value in God's Love and Childlike Faith

Life is complicated when we make it that way. Jesus confronts his disciples in this week's Gospel reading because among themselves they were arguing which one of them was the greatest. I read his answer to say, it is really way more simple than you think. Come to God with childlike qualities of trust and love and that is all you need to know.  I have come to believe that in the eyes of God, I am completely worthless and of the greatest value at the same time. In the heart of our Creator, no one of us is of more or less value than anyone else. The book of Galatians confirms this idea as Paul declares, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, nor is their male and female, for you are all one in Christ" Gal 3:26  Our value is not about where we come from, what race or nationality is, we are not what our financial worth is, nor our gender. Our value is that we are created and loved by God.  Our value to one another is that we love as we have been loved. Simple. Do not complicate it. Do not judge one another. Do not hate one another. Do not be jealous of one another. Do not kill one another. Do not think you are better or worse than one another. Those things just complicate life.  Love...it is simple...just do it!

Along the way,

PN