Longing for order is one of the things that has been so difficult during this latest season of life. Because we have received so many—and so many different—definitions of reality, life has felt unordered and chaotic.

There is a longing in all of us for order.

Now, in fairness, that longing varies by degrees. For example, you might be the kind of person who has a list for everything. You have a list for groceries, you have a meticulously kept household budget, and a daily checklist for work. You might organize your clothes according to color, season, or sleeve length, and you might have every photo rightly categorized in the cloud.

Or you might not. You might be the person who shows up at the grocery store not knowing what you’ll come away with, who likes the free-flowing ideas of a brainstorming meeting, and finds boredom when nothing in life changes every six minutes.

And of course you might be somewhere in between. But regardless of where you are on that spectrum, there is still a longing for some kind of order. Your order might look different than mine, but it’s still there. Because order, in its various forms, brings a sense of security and stability. It helps us function efficiently at work and at home. It helps us know what’s coming, at least in part, and helps us prepare reasonably for it.

And that longing for order is one of the things that has been so difficult during this latest season of life. Because we have received so many – and so many different – definitions of reality, life has felt unordered and chaotic. That has been, and continues to be, difficult. But here again is a moment to come back to one of the fundamental realities we know from our faith. That God is a God of order. More specifically…

God’s Word brings order out of chaos.

It always has. Imagine back with me to the beginning. Actually, to the beginning of the beginning…

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters (Genesis 1:2).

Formless. Empty. Dark. That’s what everything was like. In a word, chaotic. And then? Well…

Then God said…

There was order. God’s Word brings order out of chaos. And oh, how comforting that truth is.

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