Ep. 22 - Spiritual Disciplines - Simplicity

Adorned Podcast

Our 5th episode in our series on the Spiritual Disciplines is all about the discipline of simplicity. This is something that has been on Kacie’s mind and heart for a while now so she was excited to share what The Lord has been teaching her about simplicity. Don’t worry, living simply doesn’t always mean giving up everything and moving to the jungle. Jesus talks about this topic a lot in the Bible so join us as we seek to understand what living a life of simplicity really means!

Quotes:

“Simplicity cultivates the great art of letting go. Simplicity aims at loosening inordinate attachment to owning and having. Simplicity brings freedom and with it generosity.” - The Spiritual Disciplines Handbook, Adele Calhoun

“So the aim is always the great eternal good and advance of the kingdom in people’s hearts and lives. A wartime lifestyle does not romanticize about simple living as if the world in its lost condition benefited from my growing vegetables in the back yard or my having only two pairs of jeans I wear every other day. That does no good for the world at all, necessarily. A wartime lifestyle may spend a great deal of money to accomplish some great good for the world and, in the process, that expense may look like something Jesus never did. In fact, he didn’t. But that difference, I think, is incidental if the deeper commitments are the same: God and heaven and people over self and this world and material possessions.” -John Piper

“The more I can declutter my head, the more I can focus on God and the gospel.”

“A lot of times we think that having more things will fulfill in a way that it’s not going to. We’re looking for a fulfillment that will only come from Jesus.”

“We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.” -Tim Keller

“May God give you - and me - the courage, the wisdom, the strength always to hold the kingdom of God as the number one priority of our lives. To do so is to live simply.” -Richard Foster

Resources:

The Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster

The Spiritual Disciplines Handbook by Adele Calhoun

Desiring God by John Piper

The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn

Imperfect Courage by Jessica Honegger

*The beautiful music heard on today’s episode is by Katie Cobbs*