Living Simply

The Good News Today Is...God is our Jehovah Jirah - our provider. There is a lot of hype about living simply these days, yet I wonder if we as Americans can even comprehend what that means. Living simply and depending on God our provider. Hmmm - I can see where I have problems with that thought. We have an abundance of possessions and things in our lives that get in our way of living simply. Even when we try to reduce the possessions and things in our lives we have too much intellectual input, too many obligations, our appointment books are full, our lives are busy, and we love it! That's a real problem. If we are always doing and having, how can we meet Jehovah Jirah? If we never give God the trust to be our provider, we will never have a provider in God. That means we will never truly experience living simply.