SIMPLE FAITH

God will come to those who simply and faithfully wait for Him; a young virgin, a carpenter, a priest and his barren wife, shepherds, kings from the East, and old, and a widow; they were waiting and watching for the Promise of God given so long ago.  Their eyes, ears, minds, and hearts were clear and focused.  To them God came and they simply knew it was Him.

It amazes me how simple and how faithful these people were.  They didn’t have the benefit of having the whole story, beginning to end, written out so they knew how it all ended.  They only had the promises of their traditions and the words of the prophets to hold onto.  Those who were responsible for passing down and overseeing that tradition would later be found faulty and eventually dismissed by Jesus, but even in lieu of that the Promises of God were transmitted and faithfully accepted by these simple people.  If that wasn’t true would Mary and Joseph have been so quick to submit to the angel’s words?  There were no questions to the authority of what was spoken; no process of days of discernment. There was only simple obedience and sincere faith and trust that nothing is impossible with God.

Simple faith that makes no demands

But simply obeys what God commands

Pure faith that simply obeys

Because heart and mind upon God stays

I long for that peace of soul and mind

That puts all doubts and concerns behind

To simply say yes to whatever God wills

And rest in a life that only God fills.