On Sunday I was driving to the lake with my wife and we decided to watch LifeChurch.tv’s “At the Movies” online service. They just made it available to watch on your iPhone. Pretty sick!

Anywho, I don’t even know what the movie was b/c I was driving, and I’m a good driver and don’t watch movies while I drive. lol. But I did hear this part where this girl’s eyes were miraculously healed and this guy brought her glasses back to her and told her she better see the doctor. Basically, he did not really believe she was healed. So, she looks back at him, without her glasses on, and says she didn’t need to see the doctor. He asked why she doesn’t even want to see the doctor and how does she get healed and not other people. She replied with a statement that almost made me drive off the road,

“because I believed”

It was so easy for her. She used to not be able to see and now she can. She simply believed. Her decision wasn’t that hard. Either she stays blind or she believes and maybe sees again. She chose to just believe. Then when she did get healed, she didn’t need an explanation. She knew she could see and it was because she believed.

There was a simplicity in her life that I longed for. Sometimes when we have been involved in religious activity for so long, or been in the politics of ministry for so long, we overcomplicate what it is to follow Jesus. We overcomplicate it to the point that it is hard to just believe. We need explanation after explanation. Or better yet, we are arguing with other believers about “how” to believe!

I just want to believe! Not because religion tells me to. Not because religion tells me how to. I don’t want to believe because it is my job. I want the motivation of my belief to be as pure as that girl’s.

I want to believe because if I don’t, I can’t see!