For the month of March, I’m focusing on “The Simple” from Proverbs 7. In my last post, Solomon pointed out that every one of us is born “simple”—that is, gullible, credulous, naïve.
However, living the simple life is not so simple these days! In the midst of the harried world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity—what some have termed VUCA—people want to find simple for their lives. They long for it, seek it, pay for it, and even dream of it.
As Thom and Art Rainer put it, “The simple-life revolution has begun.”
Many people live a complex life—not because they’re doing bad things, but because they’re doing too many things, none of which by themselves were bad. Families take on activity after activity. Work becomes workaholism.
The good becomes the bad because there’s too much of the good. In his book Simplify, Bill Hybels offered 10 steps to unclutter your soul. The simple life demands focus. We must eliminate some things in our life and make some tough decisions. In fact, focus may well be the toughest step toward the simple life. But it is absolutely necessary.
Click here to learn more from Thom and Art Rainer about the Simple Life.