Simplicity of Heart
Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart,
Acts 2:26 YLY
Of all the hindrances to the spiritual live, complexity of heart ranks among them. Its used to be, when a church offered a fellowship card, the options were married, single, and, sometimes, divorced. Today, answers can range from single-parent, blended family, or, as it comes, “it’s complicated”.
The simple heart, or, as the King James reads, singleness of heart.
Jesus said, the eye is the lamp of the body. When the eye is single, the whole body is full of light (Luke 11:34). That word “single” means “without folds”, without layers, and, by extension, without complexity.