I Corinthians 2:1 “And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.”

Good writers (and speakers) all learn an important lesson early on if they are hopeful of ever being successful in their chosen fields: it’s important to know your audience. While these men and women who make a living on the well placed word or correctly turned phrase could unleash a torrent of verbosity that would completely devastate the sensibilities and lift the reader (or listener) to an emotional crescendo of biblical proportions, they will fail utterly if, despite the beauty of the words and the skill of the delivery, the audience has no clue what the person just said. We should all be grateful that our Heavenly Father has not called us all to dazzle people with our theological brilliance. We should be equally blessed that it does not rest upon our shoulders to usher people through the salvation experience and into eternal life. The sheer magnitude of such a thing is beyond us. Paul understood that. He didn’t come prepared to impress. He kept the message simple. Whether you are educated, uneducated, or somewhere in between, the one thing we can all handle is “simple”. So when you ‘bring it’, don’t waste time dressing it up. Simple is best.

Pray: “Father God, sometimes things seem more complicated to me than they really are. You are so unbelievably big that I sometimes forget that the path that leads to you is not ‘lit up like Vegas’ but rather is unassuming and straightforward. I know my Lord Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life…it doesn’t get much simpler than that. Help me, Father, to keep it simple. In Jesus’ matchless name I pray - Amen.”