SIMPLIFY

I've done it.  I've started a blog.  Who'd have thunk it? 
Writing has always been a release for me and my most comfortable form of communication, so here are my thoughts, my heart, put into words...

Lately, I seem to be hearing one word in my spirit: simplify.  Today I think I had the "aha!" moment as to why it's been that word. 

If you don't know me well, I am ridiculously analytical.  I read into everything.  I make things far more complicated than they need to be.  I feel this is a blessing, but if not kept in check, it acts more like a curse.  I read Scripture and mull it over and over.......and over.  I hear a sermon and pick it to the bone.  I listen to a prophetic word and question the heart of the "prophet."  While none of these acts are necessarily wrong, I am realizing I am robbing myself of some potentially amazing "God moments" by letting my mind get in the way.

The well-known verse: "Be still and know that I am God..." (Psalm 46:10) comes to mind.  I often, like many people, applied this verse to when my life had gone in a tail-spin, and I needed the kind of comfort that only came from God Himself.  However, I am currently seeing this verse in a new light.  I am being reminded to still my mind and remember the basic truth that God is God!  The rest of this verse states: "...I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth."  I must get back to the basics.  Yes, I should study, use discernment, seek wisdom... but I should not let those things get in the way of holding tight to THE TRUTH.  God is love.  Jesus is Lord.  HE WILL BE EXALTED AMONG THE NATIONS.  This is truth, and truth always wins.

-rian