He leads, I follow, you call that complicated.  I understand the only way to avoid the absolute Truth of God’s enduring Word is to develop radical excuses and justifications for your defiance to His Commands.  You see, I get it that you believe that you should be able to determine if you are good enough to go to heaven and you cannot imagine a God who would punish his creation for not following his rules.  That position makes sense for a person who is self-determined, self-sovereign, self-actualized or serving the gaping maw of self indulgence.  I see you do it till your satisfied, just do it, do whatever you want when you want for how long you want and you want to never have anyone tell you different.  Unfortunately that position places you smack dab in the middle of the broad boulevard of those who are in defiance to God’s Will for Mankind.  I wish I could tell you a fairy tale that would somehow relieve this conflict in which you find yourself, but He Leads, I follow. Seems simple enough to me.

I don’t make the rules, I don’t enforce the rules, I don’t change the rules, I don’t explain the rules, my job is to simply let everyone know that God loves them so much that he provided a way to comply with the rules through belief and faith in him.  I don’t even have to live up to the rules, sure I want to because I love my Father and I want to show him my love by following his commands, as well I don’t want my Father to discipline me.  See the freeing part of my faith is that I realize that I never can and never could live up the standards of God’s Perfection.  That is why, out of his unequivocal love for me he came and fulfilled all the rules so that if I simply put my faith hope in trust in that completed work, I am viewed as wearing Christ’s righteousness.  Yes, I said it, God looks upon me, this simple, inadequate man and he sees the characteristics of Christ “covering” my sinful existence.  He sees me washed clean by the payment of his sacrifice on the cross, he has forgiven me simply for my faith in his plan for my redemption and return to good standing in his kingdom.

This is not complicated, you are using that as an excuse to avoid, ignore, defy or justify your anger that God gets to make the rules in the world he created.  Don’t you get to make the rules in your home?  If you are the boss at work don’t you expect those who you employ to follow your rules.  Certainly they may choose to ignore them at their own detriment, but the rules are still the rules, right?  It is not complex to imagine a Holy and Righteous God who sets a standard for his creation and then enforces those directives.  The amazing thing about our God, and frankly the thing that astounds even his angels, is that he cared enough to provide a way to escape the penalty of our disobedience.  How is that complicated, how is that possible that God would love me that much that he would give me a way out of my own wickedness?  How could he possibly look past my own disobedience, my own failures, if I would simply own them, confess them and receive the forgiveness accorded those children who accept the simple gift of God’s Grace and Mercy?  Praise Him because of who He is.  Praise him for the simplicity of an escape plan that frees me from the poison of my own sin.  Praise Him because He is “Simply God and I am simply not.”  In Jesus Name.