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The Aplotetos to Christ

Posted by Chris Case | February 19, 2008 .

“Take me back to the time//When I was maybe eight or nine
And I believed
When Jesus walked on waters blue/And if He helped me, I could too
If I believed
Before rationale, analysis and systematic thinking
Robbed me of a sweet simplicity
When wonders and when mysteries//Were far less often silly dreams
And childhood fantasies
Help me believe”
Nicole Nordeman’s Help me Believe

“But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.” (2 Cor 11.3; NASB)

Paul instructs us that our devotion to Christ is supposed to be aplotes, or simple. I know I often get caught up in the grandness of theology, that I can lose touch with the simplicity and purity that my devotion should have. God made the message of Christ simple. He had to because His heart was for simple people. He loves the redneck in a trailer just as much as the king of a nation. Paul warns us not to overthink God and make Him more complex, that we should “not to go beyond what is written.” (1 Cor 4.6; ESV) With the way our daily lives often are with jobs, wives, children, girlfriends, school, church responsibilities, finances, and more, we lose sight of how simple our devotion should be. Not that God has called us to be uneducated in Christ, but to remember that He came for the simple.

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