What do you NEED to have access to every day to live your life? Food, water, shelter, and clothes are probably the most obvious things people need. But each of us probably have a few more things on the list if we’re honest. What else is on that list for you? Is it your phone? Your Starbucks order? Your comfort show? What are the things that you love to have but aren’t necessary for human survival.
For many people this list is way longer than it should be, the goal in life is to add more and more and more. I need to make more money so I can have the best stuff. I need the best stuff so people can know how important I am. What if you were called to simplify? As one artist put it, a song is not done when you can’t add anything else; a song is done when nothing else can be taken away. Time and again we get caught in the trap of MORE, and the things we own end up owning us.
This is not the life you were called to live. Paul in 2 Corinthians 1:12-14 reminds us, “12 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, … 13 For we are not writing to you anything other than what you read and understand and I hope you will fully understand…that on the day of our Lord Jesus you will boast of us as we will boast of you.
Our goal should be to live in such a way that having God is enough to make us happy. According to one study nearly 90% of Americans look at their phone within 30 minutes of waking up in the morning. What if we liberated ourselves from the ropes that bind us? What single small change could have echoes of growth that reverberate through your life?