Simplistic

“Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or—worse!—stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it’s safe from moth and rust and burglars. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being."

Matthew 6:19-21 MSG

I have had this verse on my heart and mind for sometime now. I'm not exactly sure why - I haven't read it recently or anything. Maybe it has to do with my approaching mission trip (55 days!) to Haiti and simply thinking of how little they have there. I'm sure I will be impacted beyond words when I go, and maybe this is a way of God preparing me so I'm not in so much shock. I really don't know. All I know is that I keep returning to this verse.

Then, today, I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and came across this blog post from Francesca Batistelli about wearing the same thing every day. As I was reading, I couldn't help but think it was yet another affirmation from God that this is where He is taking me. 

Francesca linked a post by Elite Daily in her blog that said talks about decision fatigue: 

"This is all related to the concept of decision fatigue. This is a real psychological condition in which a person's productivity suffers as a result of becoming mentally exhausted from making so many irrelevant decisions.

Simply put, by stressing over things like what to eat or wear every day, people become less efficient at work."

It also talked about making life simple:

"Indeed, having a diverse collection of clothing is overrated. We waste so much time worrying about things that have no substantial consequences, and don't even realize how easily we could change this.

The vast majority of us are guilty of obsessing over material things. When it comes down to it, they bring no real value to our lives. True fulfillment is acquired by going out into the world and fostering palpable and benevolent changes."

And furthermore, if we look to Scripture God has already told us this in Matthew 6:27-34 MSG:

 "Has anyone by fussing in front of the mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch? All this time and money wasted on fashion—do you think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them. 

If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers—most of which are never even seen—don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving. People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. 

Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes."

I don't think He is just asking me to simplify in my clothing department but in all areas of my life. Prior to reading the blogs I had already started going through my closets, drawers, etc. and setting things aside that need to go; however, it is really hard for me to decide if I should get rid of X thing. I hate making decisions. Seriously, I am not a decisive person. So, maybe simplification is where I am supposed to go so that I can leave my decision making to the bigger and more important decisions that need to be made.