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THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN® LIFE Daily Devotional
July 27, 2004
Complicate Your Life
by John Fischer
Relationships are complicated. Have you ever thought about how much easier
life would be without any people in it? How about it? A sure way to an
uncomplicated life would be to remove everyone but you. Right?
When you stop and think about it there really are only two options:
isolation or complication. You can hole up inside your own shell or come
out and complicate your neat, orderly life with unpredictable
relationships. Unfortunately, love has no other options.
At the end of the romantic comedy, Six Days, Seven Nights, Harrison Ford
decides to complicate his simple, controlled life with a love relationship,
and we all think he has made a good choice, because we too have fallen for
Anne Heche’s bright blue eyes. “Go for it,” we say to him at the
predictable feel-good ending, “complicate the [heck] out of your
life”—which is precisely what he says with a slight adjustment for the fact
that this is a devotional.
Ever imagine how complicated God’s life got when He created us? “Now the
Lord observed the extent of the people’s wickedness, and He saw that all
their thoughts were consistently and totally evil. So the Lord was sorry He
had ever made them. It broke His heart” (Genesis 6:5-6). Hey, even God has
His days.
Yes, God’s life got very complicated when He created us, and that
complication culminated in a devastating crucifixion. It took that much for
Him to straighten everything out. Yet that didn’t stop Him. So why should
we stop at nothing less in order to love each other? Love is worth it.
Love is impossible in isolation. Isolation is a vacuum and love needs a
relationship to breathe. Any relationship brings complications; so it’s
your choice. Hey, someone made the right choice or you wouldn’t be here to
make your own now.
Lest you think that others are the source of your complications, think
again. Relationships merely show us who we really are. They are like
mirrors into our own dysfunction, and that is actually part of our
salvation, because we probably wouldn’t see it otherwise.
So think about all the complicated relationships in your life today, and
thank God for what they show you about yourself. Ask God to heal you and
then put your arms around those complications, because the overcoming power
of God’s love is in them, waiting for you, and you wouldn’t want anything
less.
PDL
John Fischer is an author, speaker, and song writer based in Southern
California. His latest book, Love Him in the Morning has been released by
Revell Publishing.
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