"For God is not a God of disorder but of peace. " 1 Corn 14:33
Order can only be achieved through finding balance in our lives.
If you look at the natural state of the world everything is perfectly balanced out. God created both land and sky. Night and Day. Boys and girls. Plants and animals. Happiness & Sadness, hungry & full. Even if you look at the body it is perfectly balanced. Because we are created in the image of God we naturally want things to have order, and to be balanced.
But what happens when our desire for order is out balanced by the chaos of our reality?
We want to have a close relationship with our friends and family but we don’t make time for them.
We want to be treated with respect yet we disrespect others.
We want more money, yet spend the money that we don’t even have.
We want more time but then we spend the time we do have on our cell phones.
We want to do right yet we choose to do wrong.
What about when we want miracles but it’s too much of a mission to pray.
If we look at the book of Job he goes through a lot of chaos in his life even to the point where he wishes he wasn’t born. Job is a holy man and the devil saw that. So he asked God if he could challenge Job and God allowed it because God had faith in Job. Long story short job losses his family, his belongings and became very ill. Through it all Job did not curse God, but he did question why he was going through the trails because he believed he was blameless. Elihu was the only friend who offered him sound advice which made Job realise that his chaos was never about him, it was about God receiving the glory through his restoration.
“But Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, became very angry with Job for justifying himself rather than God.” Job 32:2
“But you (job) have said ‘I am pure, I have done no wrong; I am clean and free from sin. Yet God has found fault with me; he considers me his enemy. He fastens my feet in shackles; he keeps close watch on all my paths.’ “But I, Elihu, tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than any mortal. Why do you complain to him that he responds to no one’s words? For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one aware of it.” Job 33: 8 -14
“God does all these things to a person— twice, even three times— to turn them back from the pit, that the light of life may shine on them.” Job 33:29
It was only when Job's heart changed, that God changed Job's world. In the end God restored everything back to Job in double portions.
If we look to find God in every bit of our chaos, our disobedience and our failures then he will turn our chaos into order.
Here are three steps to achieving balance:
1. We need to start finding the purpose of our chaos.
In the beginning of July I decided to do a 4 month, part-time, web course. The week before I began my studies I freaked out a bit; as if my current busy life wasn’t hard enough to manage, I couldn’t image adding something else to my plate. I began the downward negative spiral convincing myself that I would be unable to balance part-time studies, a full-time job, serving at church and still making time to see my boyfriend, family and friends. I went on my knees and began pleading with God to somehow give me one extra hour in the day and that’s when I heard His voice as clear as day, “You asking me for more time, but you not giving me the time that I have already given to you.”
And it clicked, the one thing I didn’t prioritize in my to do list was the fact that I needed to get into the presence of God every single day. Instead of being too busy to spend time with him, I needed to tell me “busyness” that I’m busy spending time with God.
So instead of asking God for more, ask God to help you manage what he has already given you and then He will bless you with more.
2. We can only gain control by losing it to God.
God is more concerned about our heart conditions than our living conditions. Sometimes he will allow us to go through a trail because he knows that it might be the only way for us to draw close to him again. Let him change your heart so you can change your world.
3. Put God in the Center.
Your chaos will become order once you learn how to balance what God has placed in your hands. Take off the weights of what is unnecessary, any doubt, negativity, or condemnation and put on the weights of the God’s promises, while finding rest on the axis of God.
Your chaos will become order once you learn how to balance what God has placed in your hands. Take off the weights of what is unnecessary, any doubt, negativity, or condemnation and put on the weights of the God’s promises, while finding rest on the axis of God.
“Even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you” Psalm 139:12
The darkness, the chaos, the confusion will not feel like chaos once you have found its purpose, given the chaos over to God and put God in the centre of it all. I now know that no matter how busy my season is, God is always busy working. He is busy turning things around for my benefit and for His glory.
