Simplicity is a single eye and an uncluttered obedience.
If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
The anointing that you received from him abides in you,
and you have no need that anyone should teach you.
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
Simplicity is not a style. It is a single aim. Jesus says the eye is the lamp of the body. If the eye is healthy, the whole body is full of light. If the eye is bad, the body is dark. No one can serve two masters. Contentment is the simple life’s wealth: godliness with contentment is great gain. Food and clothing are enough. Paul feared the Corinthian minds would be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. That devotion is the simplicity.
- Covetousness splits the eye. Two masters darken the body.
- The church is told to do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus. One name. Not a crowd of aims.
- Martha was anxious about many things. One thing is necessary. Mary chose it.
A healthy eye. One master. One necessary thing. Contentment keeps the life from filling up with what cannot be served.
If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
You cannot serve God and money.
One thing is necessary.
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
- Simplicity is a healthy eye, a single aim.
- Two masters darken the body.
- One thing is necessary. Mary chose it.
- Sincere and pure devotion to Christ is the devotion Paul guarded.
- Contentment keeps the life from the clutter of more.
- It is not poverty as a badge. It is an undivided eye.
- The Eye – Healthy, and the body full of light.
- The Master – One. God, not money.
- The Necessary – One thing. Mary’s choice.
- The Devotion – Sincere and pure, to Christ.
- The Gain – Godliness with contentment.
- The Enough – Food and clothing.
- Matthew 6:22-24 – “The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness… No one can serve two masters… You cannot serve God and money.”
- Luke 10:41-42 – “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”
- 2 Corinthians 11:3 – “But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.”
- 1 Timothy 6:6-8 – “But godliness with contentment is great gain… if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.”
If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.
You cannot serve God and money.
One thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion.
Godliness with contentment is great gain.
Simplicity is a single eye. One master. One necessary thing. Contentment keeps the life from filling up with a second lord.
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