There’s nothing super about being superficial.

The meaninglessness of superficial entertainment bores me. The calling of purpose thrills me! Look beyond superficiality. The fumes of superficiality will never fill up your think tank.

Closed hearts are trapped by superficial things. Open hearts discover life-enriching vision and purpose.

You’ll never learn to dive into a life of meaningful purpose if you spend your time in the shallow wading pool of superficiality. The more you fish for the superficial, the more you’ll catch discouragement and despair.

There’s nothing super about being superficial. Superficiality is an attempt to hide the trouble that is raging in your heart in order to protect your pride. If you will humbly listen with an open heart, criticism from other people can be a superhero that rescues you from superficiality.

If we don’t open our heart to God and to other people, religious activities do us little good. Whenever “two or three gather’ in the name of Jesus and humbly open their hearts to Christ and to one another, there will appear “the love of the Spirit” — “the love of God shed abroad in human community.

Love that’s superficial
Is merely artificial.
True love connects deeply
Because it’s sacrificial!

Superficiality
Tries to dodge reality
By embracing triviality
And artificiality
But here’s a technicality.
It lacks the capacity
To erase actuality.
Its denial and irrationality
Are full of ineffectuality
And release dysfunctionality.

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About Steve Simms

I like to look and think outside the box. In college I encountered Jesus Christ and I have been passionate about trying to get to know Him better ever since. My wife and I long to see the power and passion of the first Christ-followers come to life in our time. I have written a book about our experiences in non-traditional church, called, "Beyond Church: An Invitation To Experience The Lost Word Of The Bible--Ekklesia." If you need encouragement, search for: Elephants Encouraging The Room and/or check out my Amazon author page. Thank you!
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