Daily Devotional

May 15th 2025

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THURSDAY

The thing that has me so upset is that I care about you so much—this is the passion of God burning inside me! I promised your hand in marriage to Christ, presented you as a pure virgin to her husband. And now I’m afraid that exactly as the Snake seduced Eve with his smooth patter, you are being lured away from the simple purity of your love for Christ.—II Corinthians 11:2, 3 (MSG)

As we continue our day-by-day faith-walk journey with Christ, it’s important that we maintain our grasp on the simple truths of the Gospel in an ever more complex world. The complexities of life and of living don’t change the simple truths of life in Christ, any more than the complexities of higher math change the simple truths of arithmetic. In fact, it’s our reliance on the basic truths—addition, subtraction, multiplication and division—that make resolving more complex mathematical issues possible. Though our world may become increasingly complex, we can handle it best when we are anchored by the simple truths of Christ.
We have the promise of Christ’s daily companionship. Do you sense that Christ is yours all day long? Do you rest on that, think about that, and live out of that relationship and out of that sense of the expectation of His presence? Christianity is not a creed; it is a relationship; it is living with a Person. That is the simplicity that is in Christ. The danger that we constantly face is that we get involved in the things about Christ and fail to live in a relationship with Christ.
We can lose it in the pressures of daily living. We can get so busy and so worried and so anxious about ourselves and the things that are happening to us that we lose the sense that Christ is with us, and He is sufficient. This is the beautiful “simplicity that is in Jesus.”
The Corinthians were being challenged with ego-appealing experiences and believed that if they could only grasp them, they would feel great, wonderful, and so God-possessed. In the same way, people today are invited to explore various complexities that hold the promise of bringing contentment to us, but we must not move away from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Prayer: Lord God, as we go today, help us to not become deterred by the superficial and the secondary. Keep us grounded by the power of the exquisite simplicity of the Gospel. Grant that we may walk close to Jesus and not let anything take us away from that day-by-day, moment-by-moment companionship of His presence. In His name, we pray. AMEN!

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