Author: UFC Women

The UFC women's ministry team values community in the spiritual life, so in 2023 as our blog team returns to regular posting here at ufcwomen.blog, you will meet women in our church and read about parts of their stories of walking with Jesus. We hope these regular posts will encourage you! Today it's a joy to hear from Sarah Tompkins as she shares about simplicity in her life.

Jesus had a singular focus that dictated His every action. He said to the Samaritan woman at the well, “My food is to do the will of My Father and to accomplish His work.” That’s it. That is what fed Jesus, what gave Him joy and purpose and fulfillment. Doing only what God wanted Him to be doing in every moment. It’s all He cared about. Every decision He made, every place He went, every person He engaged with was only ever a response to His deeper focus on God’s will and work. Jesus didn’t always heal everyone. He didn’t always respond to everyone. He didn’t always go where people thought He should go or do what they thought He should do. Sometimes Jesus seemed rude, or uninterested. But He wasn’t. He was simply focused. That. Is. Simplicity. Confidently doing what God has created or called us to do, without allowing anything to distract us from it. A singular focus.