Know It All!?

How much do you know? How much you know, is directly equal to how smart you are, right? No one wants to look stupid about anything, or any subject…ever. We look at people in other areas of the country and how they live, and often times, we label them. In politically correct terms, we refer to people in a lower class than ours as “simple”. Labeling someone as simple seems like a degrading comment, as if they are not educated enough to be complicated. When you say it like that, it simply sounds wrong.

Have you seen this TV show called “Duck Dynasty”? When I first heard about it, people told me it was about “simple” folks who made it big. It was first described to me like it was kind of a modern day Beverly Hillbillies story. If you have seen the show, you know that it was no dumb luck that helped this family succeed. There are college degrees and business acumen that would rival a Fortune 500 Company’s, but you will probably never hear about it. They truly are simple folks, with very simple values. They also close each show as their family simply gathers for family dinner around one big table, and the patriarch simply thanks Jesus for all He has given them.

I am not saying you need to watch the show, albeit it is as funny as funny gets, but that a simple family kept things simple, and never lost focus on what matters most. I guess what I am saying is that if simple is a “bad” thing; I want as much of it as I can possibly get.

So when it comes down to knowledge, it should not then be about how much you know, but what you do with what you know. Information should not be a ladder by which we climb over people, but the food we desire to feed our minds (and the kind of food you consume is all up to you). When it comes to knowing more, for me, I want to keep it simple like Paul:

1 Corinthians 2:2 (ESV)
“For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.”

Simple works, and simple is almost always simple, otherwise it stops being simple, right? (That was not simple, sorry.)

Keep it simple: Simply Jesus.

…just sayin’

In His grip,

Pastor Pat