Simplicity.

Tonight was the last night of Back Yard Bible Club which is basically like Crossbridge's version of Vacation Bible School. All week I've been helping out with the crafts station and it's been a blast! The kids are precious and eager. It's so refreshing to be around a child's mind and spirit; the complexity and simplicity of it all at the same time. Since it was the last night, they gave a very simple invitation. Pastor Brian went over a verse that states how we've all sinned, and then how the price for sin is death. Next, very simply he explained that Jesus died so we didn't have to pay our debt. And lastly, he gave scripture from Ephesians that says there is nothing we can do to earn this, but all we can do is believe in Jesus and believe that he rose again. I was listening and watching the kids as some paid attention and some just played with grass. And then all of a sudden I found myself crying, simple tears rolling down my cheeks. I was just so amazed and blown away. Salvation is that simple. There is such a beautiful simplicity about Christ's love for us and how He's saved our lives. Sometimes we make faith and our relationship with Christ so complex. We over think and over analyze but fact is, it's SIMPLE. The bare bones and the basic facts state that we all have sinned and therefore deserve death, but Jesus took on the sin of the world and died for us and then rose again. He did this so selflessly that there is NOTHING we can do to earn this gift of salvation, except to believe in Jesus and what he did for us and enter into a relationship with Him.

Simple.

What a good God I serve :)