Intricate Simplicity

Proverbs 9:6
Leave your simple ways and you will live, walk in the way of understanding.

Ok, This is my starting point. This blog entry will be about whether the bible wants you to live a completely simple lifestyle or a complex lifestyle questioning everything.

One very important thing to remember is that I want you to wrestle with what I am writing, find out in your own walk, talk with God and your family about this. I think its an interesting topic. Ready?
(God's Words are in BLUE, defenitions are in RED and my commentary are in BLACK)


In the words of DJ Lance-Rock (Yo Gabba Gabba; Nick Jr. show) "Lets do it, a-break it down"

In the proverb above it describes leaving simple ways behind and begin to live. Basically saying that living in our simple ways is not only the opposite of walking in the way of understaning but the opposite of truly living.


But does that mean that God has called us to live ultra-intricately or over-elaborately? One antonym to "simple" is "intricate" , and intricate is

In·tri·cate:
1. Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate.
2. Solvable or comprehensible only with painstaking effort.

In my opinion, living life with everything complexly arranged, too elaborately and almost making simple issues only solveable by painstaking effort is well, wrong. It takes away from that peace that God has put in our lives.

2nd Timothy 1:7
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.


See that? A sound mind. Peace. But where is the middle ground between having a simple lifestyle without being a simpleton? The middle ground between being lazy and over-ambitious in our own ways and taking on all of the problems of the world for ourselves.

Well, let me just give some examples when simplicity is used in God's word.

1 Corinthians 3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

Did you catch that? It was awesome. Ok, I'll tell you what the moral of the story here is. In the first verse it says leave OUR simple ways behind. The fact of the matter is,

If you live exaggeratedly intricate you are wrong
If you live exaggeratedly simple...still wrong.
If you live in the middle ground...still wrong.

Confusing? Not really, the similarity between those lifestyles is that no matter how we live, if we live in our ways it is simple to God's way for us. Proverbs 9:6 isn't saying that just the lazy are displeasing God,


But in everything we do without God, that we ultimately do for ourselves is living like a simpleton. Living only seeing our life is simple because our lives are like vapors in the wind. All the riches of kings end up in wills. Nothing that we do without God is going to matter, it will be forgotten.

With God, we will reach our full potential because we may not see everyone's life that we impact with every, single action but HE DOES.

And we just have to have faith in him, that he is doing what is best, what is truly good.

So, living for ourselves, (whether plain or stressed) is wrong.

Matthew 11:25
At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

Ok, so this verse describes how we are simple. How we need to be.

See, God will reveal himself to those who are babes. Not literally Micah aged babies and that is it. but rather those who accept that in comparison to God they know nothing.



Get it?


When this verse talks about the wise and prudent it means those who are wise in their own eyes.

Ok. I would love to delve deeper into this, but I want you to do this. For you. Yes, you, sitting in front of the computer screen because you heard about this blog from someone's facebook or something.

I want you to wrestle with this and read on your own.

ok?


So, Read the following verses on...

How our ways are simple in comparison to God's:

• Isaiah 55: 6-11
• Matthew 11: 25-30
• Proverbs 16:9
• Proverbs 3:5
• Psalm 48:14
• Jerimiah 10:23

So, the moral of the story is

We = wrong, both living stressed and simple

God = ALWAYS RIGHT

Ok, I could have just said that from the beginning. Oh, well.

My personality

According to a personality test I am Choleric Melancholy.

E. ChlorMel (DC) The choleric/melancholy is very industrious and capable. He is both industrious and detailed. He combines verbal aggressiveness with sharp attention to detail. He is very competitive and forceful. He can be autocratic and opinionated with work habits that keep after details until the job is completely finished. He finds interpersonal relationships difficult due to the hard-to-please nature of the choleric and the perfectionism nature of the melancholy.

I guess when I am behind the tech booth I am like this alot.Hmm, I suppose I can talk to alot of people with my pointless random questions but I do have trouble making solid, dependable, open-up-to friends at times. Hmm...interesting.

I am cool with that.

Closed doors behind us

There is a statement that goes “It only matters who you are when you are alone and behind closed doors.” I not only disagree but I firmly believe in the complete opposite of the statement. If you live life to the fullest only when you are alone would it matter that you ever lived at all?
From the moment of birth every human being depends on its parents not only for food and shelter but on every thing that newborn will grow to accomplish. We are only born with a rooting and grasping reflex, everything aside from those two basic feats are founded on our surroundings. Our Accents, mannerisms, values and how we interact with others are dependant on others around us. We were not meant to live alone.
I find that in loneliness we focus on ourselves (there is simply nothing else to focus all of our human capacity on when we are alone). In doing so we don’t worry so much about what we are content with but rather what can make us ‘better’. Without others we can create an emptiness that can only be filled with companionship. This abysmal gap mutates, a thirst to be filled that cannot be quenched by the finite ‘things’ we try to fill it with. The only problem is the understanding what loneliness truly means.
You can be alone but still surrounded, as paradoxical as that sounds. A sociable, friendly, and outgoing person can be tough-shelled to expressing their thoughts, feelings and questions about deeper meanings in life. All of the good company in the world would mean nothing if you are deserted. The fine line between popularity and bare is unknown to most.
Do others know your imperfection? Are you allowing other to help you in your issues without worry about who you will be seen as? Most simulate and conjure up themselves as a protagonist who has dealt with every climax the world has had to offer…but concealed is a child who remains unresolved and belittled by their hindrance. Even the minutest of actions have effects of great magnitude in other’s lives; so rather than worrying about appearances, worry about the obstacle you face and how to aid others who confronting the exact same setback. Even if being open transforms you into a social pariah, accept that we do not know tomorrow despite any predictions and (more importantly) there are more people to meet. It’s not the end of the world.
Most of us make our world small, its inhabitants only encompassing the people we know and have acquainted ourselves with, and that is when we lose this fight called life.
How are you supposed to grow if you pretend to be perfect? To be our best we need to accept our gaps and neediness, the finiteness of our lives. Not only is it terrifying but we are helpless to it. 100% of us die no matter how we acted, worried, stressed, behaved or no matter how good health care gets. All of the riches of kings end up in wills. The only thing to strive for is to leave a legacy, to change someone’s life and have this innovation pass through them.
I cannot dictate how you chose to be remembered but know this, be kind to others. You can change everyone who has ever known you by being selfish. You change everyone you know and everyone they know with love, love is impressionable, strived for and contagious. The real fight in life should never be a struggle to keep the person you are behind closed doors. That battle to keep your impure wants will never end. The real conflict is between our laziness and who we are destined to be in other’s lives. Keep the closed doors behind your potential.

Why Chaos?

cha⋅os [key-os]
–noun
1.a state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order.
2.any confused, disorderly mass: a chaos of meaningless phrases.
3.the infinity of space or formless matter supposed to have preceded the existence of the ordered universe.

There it is. In plain text the defenition of chaos. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chaos)

Chaotic to me means a state of utter confusion in a positive way. When I look at the ways of this world and system I want to be confused...asking myself

"Why do my brothers and sisters think that these finite things could possibly slake their thirst for purpose, for God?"

I want disorder in my life. Disorder from any rules or limitations I have set for myself; a lifestyle that is disordered by itself along with the understanding that any efforts to find order and perfection without God are futile.

I want to be meaningless on my own so my only comfort, purpose and eternal meaning are only found in my God.

This defenition also defines chaos as "the infinity of space or formless matter supposed to have preceded the existence of the ordered universe".

This matter is described as chaos because it has no order (to our finite understanding), no beginning (to our finite understanding) and no end (to our finite understanding). It pre-exists our order, our understaning. Surpassing time and impossible to explain or cage in any mathematical equation.