Simplicity

Laplace was a mathematician that lived in the years 1749-1827. His name is known for developing a formulation of an equation that would help to reveal some of the essence of the universe. It is amazing that he would be able to formulate such with little of the “modern” tools that are so essential to “seeing” deep into the universe. It is and was a very complicated offering.
It would be in the 1990’s that a man would develop a mechanism for observing rapid heart rate in a much quicker manner than had ever before been achieved. It is with this technology that he developed that I spend much of my days.

Interestingly enough, I don’t completely understand Laplace’s Equation or the inverse that is utilized in the technology that I use weekly. I could explain it to you in sterile terms, but it would perhaps bore you, and further would not prove very helpful in understanding what was really going on.

The part that I find quite amazing is that the men who developed this technology made something very complex usable to the world of Cardiology. In the complexity of it, it has been made understandable.

Simplicity is an art and an absolute discipline that has suffered many things. Concepts that are passe such as KISS(Keep It Simple Stupid) are preferred to examination of the deeper issues. Often in the short answers, simplicity is further masked by platitudes and generalizations that fail under close observation.

The more I think of it, the more I am convinced that the genius may not have been in the thought processes but more in the fact that it was made understandable to an ignorant boy from Dothan. It makes me think that this technology is a reflection of scripture. . . How something so complicated could be understood by common man.. . . . Scripture clearly enunciates that there is no greater love than for a man to lay down his life for a friend. Yet the utter simplicity of this love is hard to explain. Try, and I fail. Try to explain it to yourself and I think that you, too, will fail. This simple love is so utterly hard to explain because it seems so complex. Yet the greater simplicity was expained thusly in scripture.

I Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

This is the beauty of the whole thing: Great is the mystery of godliness. . .. It's not how(He's God). . .. the complexity and mystery is in the why? Why would He choose to robe himself in flesh? Ahh, there are those who will hand out quick platitudes, but there is a deeper, more simple reason. . . How leaves us in the external world of ethereal Spirit, and demands little of us. It is the difference between theory and practice.

It is in the desperate WHY that we find simplicity that is at once clear and yet terribly indicting to our souls. It is in the utter simplicity that unless we understand WHY disturbs our well padded cocoons. The precision of why in its simplicity points out the utter failings of my soul, and once again tells me.. . . no. . . It shouts at me. I am a man very much in need of a Savoir.

I only need a Savior when I recognize that what I have will never be enough, and what I have done consigns me to a future without hope. But this simplicity robs me of excuses and reasons. This utter simplicity shouts out at me, and convicts me in light of a Cross.

The simple truth is that it all comes down to a Man on a cross, dying to save the world.

Yes, it is a very simple concept to follow, yet God took up the pen and wrote an entire book about it because He knew that complexity of something so simple would confound our minds.

I have discovered, almost daily, that I am a man very much in need of a Savior. But Saviors aren't needed in the heavens, Saviors are needed in the real world. But a savior can only save those that recognize the failures that need a Savior to save them.

The simplicity of the Savior is in the utter need of Him.