Order Out of Chaos!

Many years ago an older gentleman asked me to assemble a desk he had purchased. When I arrived I discovered this thing was huge, filling five different large cartons in his living room. As I was laying out the pieces all over his living room for assembly, I began to feel as though I would never get it all together. But slowly, it began to take shape and order began to develop out of the chaos. After a long, difficult day, I stepped back and what I saw was amazing.
This so reminds me of our lives and our world. We look around at everything that is going on and all we see is chaos and disorder. We look at our own lives and the mess we have often made out of them and wonder how GOD could ever bring any order to such chaos.
King Solomon felt the same way. As his life was rapidly winding down, he looked back at it all and he said: “It is beautiful how God has done everything at the right time. He has put a sense of eternity in people’s minds. Yet, mortals still can’t grasp what God is doing from the beginning to the end of time” (Ecclesiastes 3:11 GW).
GOD is working—in His time, in our world, in our lives—to establish order where we only see disorder, to create beauty out of a mess. When we step back and look at where we were and then we are today, we can truly see the beauty of GOD’s hand. Oftentimes, we will not understand the “whats” or the “whys” or the “how comes;” but, we can rest in the assurance that GOD is at work creating beauty.
Sometimes, we just have to hold on by faith, trusting in what GOD is doing. Like that desk, I had no idea what it would become or if it ever would become but when it as finally finished, it was marvelous, functional and beautiful. So it is with you and me, if we have placed our trust in Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
The mortality of our hearts and minds prevents us from always seeing the big picture, but the time will come when we will step back and look over our years and say, “WOW! GOD, You are so awesome! What You have done with me, with my world, I would’ve never imagined the final product of Your work in my life! You have brought order, functionality and beauty to what was once only chaos and disorder. Thank You!”
Scripture Reading: “You are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God’s instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted” (1 Peter 2:9-10 Message Bible).
Prayer: Father in heaven, I have messed things up at times. In my pursuit of worldly acceptance, I have often created chaos and disorder in my life. But, I realize You have something far greater in store for me. I surrender myself over to You to be shaped, molded and created into a beautiful object that displays You and Your glory even in the darkness of our world. Thank You, Father, for taking me just as I was and working to make me just as You want me to be. In Jesus’ name…AMEN!