Simplicity revisted

I know that simplicity was a couple of weeks ago but I was reading in "My Utmost for His Highest" today and it brought me back to that chapter and was really great and wanted to share with you guys so here it is:

January 26,
"A simple statement of Jesus is always a puzzle to us because we will not be simple. How can we maintain the simplicity of Jesus so that we may understand Him?By receiving His Spirit, recognizing and relying on Him, and obeying him as He brings us the truth of His Word, life will become amazingly simple. Jesus asks us to consider that "if God so clothes the grass of the field...."How "much more" will He clothe you, if you keep your relationship right with Him?Every time we lose ground in our fellowship with God, it is because we have disrespectfully thought that we knew better than Jesus Christ. We have allowed 'the cares of the world" to enter in (Matthew 13:22), while forgetting the "much more" of our heavenly Father.
"Look at the birds of the air......." (6:26). Their function is to obey the instincts God placed within them, and God watches over them. Jesus said that if you have the right relationship with Him and will obey His Spirit within you, then God will care for your "feathers" too.
'Consider the lilies of the field......" (6:28). They grow where they are planted. Many of us refuse to grow where God plants us. Therefore, we don't take root anywhere. Jesus said if we would obey the life of God within us, he would look after all others things. Did Jesus Christ lie to us? Are we experiencing the "much more" He promised? If we are not, it is because we are not obeying the life God has given us and cluttered our minds with confusing thoughts and worries. How much more time have we wasted asking God senseless questions while we should be absolutely free to concentrate on our service to Him? Consecration is the act of continually separating myself from everything except that which God has appointed me to do. It is not a one-time experience but an ongoing process. Am I continually separating myself and looking to God every day in my life?" by Oswald Chambers.

I have been challenged again to live simply and to continually be in the process of consecrating my life so that I am all eyes and all in with Christ. Although most of this is easier said than done, I love that it is as simple as trusting and loving Christ and the place he has brought you. I was encouraged by this today and maybe it will encourage you too.

:)