It's Not Complicated

  Someone I love  has an email address that includes the words its not complicated . Whenever I am trying to write down that email address  while trying to remember where to put punctuation, how to spell complicated,etc., I disagree.  I think:" Oh, yes, it is complicated!" We humans have a tendency to complicate things. 
     Adam began to complicate simple directions when he added : "And we must not  even touch it" to God's command not to eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. He probably just added it because he knew Eve better than we do. As a teacher and houseparent, I've seen children add to the playground rules, house parents add to the rules in the house. A lot of government ordinances are a very human attempt to  add  our own two cents to God's Big 10. Oh, I understand that laws have to be specific   enough to eliminate any possible misunderstandings. Our efforts at clarification, however, typically   complicate so much  that you have to hire a lawyer just to help decipher what it actually says.
   As humans we tend to complicate just about everything we touch or think about. Human invented  inventions and technology make life easier, you say? Sure they do! Easier, except when they don't work  properly- then, it complicates everything. Even knowledge can complicate our decisions and our actions. Our worries, our fears  not only complicate our own lives ; they also complicate  the lives of people around us. The list is endless.

   Faith, on the other hand,   has the tendency to simplify . It amazes me that the Creator, whose creation continually astounds with its multitudinous intricacies, was willing to boil the simple BIG 10 down to two very simple rules for living. Love God. Love people.

 The wise King Solomon, full of words and thought summarized  like this:

"Here is the conclusion of the matter:
Fear God and keep his commandments,
    for this is the duty of all mankind.
¹⁴ For God will bring every deed into judgment,
    including every hidden thing,
    whether it is good or evil."

And the Prophet Micah simplified by saying this:

"He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God."Micah 6:8

    I could go on, but why complicate things? 

    The real matter at hand is:what does all this have to do with being happy? Quite simply, I love God, He loves me. Never, at any time or in any circumstance am I unloved.

     How could I not be happy? 
                                                                        

                       It's just  not that complicated.