Ephesians 2:8
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
Here we have one of those intense and pivotal verses that are scattered throughout the Scriptures. The ones that precisely and concisely express giant chunks of doctrine in their uncomplicated phraseology. Like Jesus did when asked how to attain eternal life He mystifyingly and lucidly compressed all of Scripture down to one statement. Which of course turns out to be the chief of these pivotal verses, “Love God with all your heart, soul mind and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.” There is great wisdom in being able to take a complex subject matter and distill it down to it essential elements and then carefully and clearly express it.
I believe it was Albert Einstein who so perfectly summed up this principle with this luminous statement:
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”
The same can be said for our own understanding of our relationship with God and others. Our tendency is to make things more and more complicated, when all the while Heaven is speaking truth in its most simplest of forms.
Also brilliantly stated by Einstein:
“When the solution is simple God is speaking”
application
Today I will seek the Lord to show me ways to uncomplicate my life.
To see my wife Margaret's insight on this very same verse visit here:
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