Wherever there is disorder in your life, God wants to bring it back into order. Where there is chaos, God wants to bring his peace. And what God wants, God can do!



The question is, are you going to partner with God in the process, or are you going to fight it? The truth is, you can’t always make everything better, but you can always make things worse. What if the simple prayer to pray here is, “Lord, don’t let me make things worse.”



We can really make a mess of the things that are already messy. We can destroy relationships that were already strained with our unmanaged words spoken in anger and frustration. We can make a job we don’t like absolutely miserable by focusing on the wrong things and showing up with our bad attitude and less than best efforts. We can take what was already struggling and absolutely destroy it. Now, God calls his creation back to order! We’ve gotten wrapped up in disorder.



Do you remember the story of Jesus being in the boat with his disciples and he’s asleep during a great storm? Luke 8: 24, “The disciples went and woke Jesus up, shouting, ‘Master, Master, we’re going to drown!’ When Jesus woke up, he rebuked the wind and the raging waves. Suddenly the storm stopped and all was calm.”



The wind and the waves are the creation of Jesus. The calming of the wind and the waves is Jesus bringing order back to his creation.



When God’s creation goes out of control, he is still in control of his creation. This is all his creation and this is all under his control.



Creation has a way of naturally getting out of order. You don’t have to plant weeds, those grow with absolutely no effort. You don’t have to teach a 2 year old to throw a temper tantrum, they figure that out on their own and naturally give it a try to see if it works. And you and I, grown adults who know better, we tend to slack and drift. Our intentions and priorities slack, our habits get messy, then we look around at a life that is in disorder and wonder how it got that way.



Jesus, please bring your creation back into order.



1 Corinthians 14: 33, “God is not a God of disorder.” Verse 40, “Be sure that everything is done properly in order.”



God knows the danger disorder is to his creation. He knows the natural pull of life that causes us to drift and crash without our awareness. And he calls us back to order. How? His Holy Spirit that dwells within us. That little nudge within that says, “this isn’t good” … yes, that’s the call back to order. That gut feeling that says, “I need to change this” … yes, that’s God calling his creation back to order. God’s Holy Spirit dwelling within each of his girls is his call to step away from the chaos and partner with him in the divine order of life.



Most of us know John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Those are powerful, life changing words. Now, let’s understand those words on an even deeper level today. The Greek word for world is Kosmos (with a K). This is where we get our word cosmos (with a C), meaning the universe. However, when Jesus said, “For God so loved the Kosmos”, the meaning was not only the whole world, but order. In Greek, Kosmos means order.



God created the whole whole with divine order. The story of creation in Genesis 1 reveals every intentional act of creation in order. And God loved his creation, but his creation had fallen out of order. His creation had been destroyed by sin.