Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Yet, thankfully, God makes things simple.
The message of the Gospel is simple. It’s in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4.
3.For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4.And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:…
Many believe we must do good works to earn our salvation. Would you believe Jesus says that’s true? According to Jesus in John 6:29, all we have to do is believe in Him. How simple is that?
28.Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
29.Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Here’s how simple God makes believing. According to Ephesians 2:8-9, He gives you and me the ability to believe.
8. For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9.Not of works, lest any man should boast.
It’s the grace of God that leads Him to give you and me the faith to believe on Him for salvation. That faith doesn’t come from something you or I stir up.
But it doesn’t stop there. That faith goes well beyond salvation. According to Romans 10:17, it grows as we grow in the knowledge of His word.
17. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
The Christian walk is a forward walk, according to 2 Peter 1:5-8.
5.And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6.And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7.And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8.For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
God makes things so simple that He gives us the Holy Spirit to enable us to walk in His ways, according to Romans 8:14-16, 26-27.
14.For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15.For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16.The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:…
26.Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
27.And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
Because He makes things simple, simply trust Him.