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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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