I thought I was being efficient. Going to the gym felt right. Structured. Disciplined. Easy to measure. But somewhere along the way, a question kept coming back. Do I actually need all of this? So I tried something different. Stayed home. Stripped it down. A few basic movements that covered what I was trying to do anyway. It wasn’t impressive. But it worked.

That’s when I thought about Ockham’s Razor. It’s the idea that when you’re trying to explain something, you shouldn’t add more than you need. If two explanations lead to the same result, the better one is the one with fewer assumptions. Fewer moving parts. Less added on.

It doesn’t mean the simplest explanation is always right. It means don’t build complexity where it isn’t necessary. At first, that’s all this felt like. Simplifying. Then my mind went to a moment in Scripture.
A scribe asked Jesus Christ:

Which commandment is the most important of all?
Mark 12:28 (ESV)

That question mattered. Because the Law wasn’t small. Traditionally, it’s counted at 613 commands. They covered worship, daily life, relationships, purity, sacrifice. Devout Jews studied them, debated them, tried to live them faithfully. But holding all of it together wasn’t simple. What mattered most?

Jesus answered:

The most important is, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” The second is this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” There is no other commandment greater than these.
Mark 12:29–31 (ESV)

It sounds like simplification. Everything brought down to two. But it isn’t. He didn’t reduce the Law. He revealed what it was always pointing to. Before that, there were ways to manage it. You could focus on parts of it. Be careful in certain areas. Measure how you were doing. There was structure. After that, everything is measured differently.

Love God with all your heart.
Love your neighbor as yourself.

That doesn’t shrink the Law. It concentrates it.

I can simplify a workout. I can remove what isn’t necessary. I can make a system more efficient. But this doesn’t get easier. It gets clearer. It looked like He was making it simpler to follow. He wasn’t. He was taking away every place to hide. Almost like a different kind of razor. Not one that cuts complexity…but one that cuts through me.

Jesus’ Razor.

Ockham’s Razor makes things easier to explain.

Jesus’ Razor makes things honest.

Love and trust in the Lord; seek His will in your life.

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