MANY are puzzled at the simplicity of the Gospel. When it is presented to them in all its hilliness and freeness, they declare that believing on the Lord Jesus Christ is "far too easy way,' and refuse to accept it.
Thank God, it is an "easy" way of being saved. Well might the poet Cowper sing:
"Oh, how, unlike the complex works of man,
Heaven’s easy, artless, unencumbered plan.”
Though an "easy" way for us it is not “too easy” since it is obtained through believing in one by whom the difficult work has all been done—the Lord Jesus.
It was not ”easy" for Him to be mocked and insulted by men. It was not "easy" for Him to be scourged, spit upon and crucified. It was not "easy" in the moment of His humiliation and agony to be forsaken of God. It was not "easy" for Him to be wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. Though an easy way, it is God's only way of saving sinners, and if you are not saved in that way, you will never be saved at all. To him that worketh not, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. (Rom. 4:55But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. (Romans 4:5).)