The simple life is what you find when you drive through Lancaster, PA. Amish farm land, Mennonite communities and rolling hills with horse drawn buggies. Simple Life. The only problem with this picture is that in order to enjoy this picturesque scene you have to drive through it with a thousand other tourists looking to get a momentary glimpse of the simple life. Traffic, commercialism and buffets kind of diminish the refreshing qualities of this simple life.
Yet simplicity can be found without traveling down the PA Turnpike, it is found in the heart. To be simple in the bad sense is to be easily enticed into sinful and foolish behavior, and this type of "Simple Life" leads to the complicities of endless struggles and deep sorrows. Yet the Bible exhorts us to be "Simple concerning evil." This type of "Simplicity" relates to an un-mixed or un-corrupted life. That's what the Amish try to accomplish by their separation, and this is certainly what God would have us work towards, not reclusiveness, but distance. Keeping the evil of this world far removed from your life. If there is a long driveway that evil must travel to get to you, certainly you will see it coming a long way off, and have plenty of time to lock to doors.
Chuck (200 Still)
Good thoughts.
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