“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent
beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the
simplicity that is in Christ.” 2 Cor 11:3
It
was not the outer grandeur of the Roman’s, but the inner simplicity of the gospel
in Christ that has lived through the ages.
The essence of life is not defined by great victories or grand failures,
but in the simple joys of the Lord. We must learn from Eve not to let our minds
be beguiled (seduced wholly) thus
corrupted from the simplicity of Christ.
Paul himself, educated, was determined not to know anything, save Jesus
Christ and His crucifixion (1 Cor 2:1-2). Paul did not mean that they we're in danger of
being corrupted in the same way as Eve, but that similar efforts would be made
to entrap and complicate our minds. Satan adapts his temptations to the
character and circumstances of the tempted. The word subtlety implies that
shrewdness, cunning, craft was employed.
Mastery of the simple things in Christ keeps the mind from wondering
into tiring corruption in the world.
Simplicity is about subtracting the meaningless and adding the meaningful.
Life
is amazingly good when it’s simple and amazingly simple when it’s good.
HSAY…Todd
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