“My father, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash and be clean’?” (2 Kings 5:13)
If God asked us to scale mountains or plunge to the deepest parts of the oceans to receive salvation, we would accuse Him of being elitist and reserving salvation only for the strongest and brightest.
And yet, when He commands us to simply “believe and be baptized” (Mark 16:16) the world says that Christianity is too simple and only for the foolish and uneducated. We, like Naaman, roll our eyes at the “blandness” of God’s design.
God’s ancient plan of salvation is simple because He desires all men to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth (see 1 Timothy 2:4). His love of all of us compels Him to make His plan straightforward enough that all the honest and humble might be able to obey it. He doesn’t need us to do great things… Jesus already did the great things.
Matthew 4:4 #Biblebites