NO PLACE FOR RANDOM
READING: 1 CORINTHIANS 14:33-40
The Lord is the God of order. This world that He has created surrounds us with His order. For example, our modern society would be completely impossible without the body of scientific knowledge that is the foundation for all technology. Science is possible only because of the predictability and consistency that result from God’s order. Even more basically, we could not even survive except by the natural order that He has set in place. It is His order that maintains all of the delicate balances in the universe, that are necessary to sustain its very existence and the life it supports. We learn from 1 Corinthians 14:33 that godly order is also necessary in order for the people of God to properly worship Him. That verse provides the wise counsel that the Lord is not the author of confusion, which is disorder, but of peace. If we are to dwell in peace, we must dwell in order. If we dwell in order, a product will be peace. Therefore, we benefit well from heartily agreement with Paul’s exhortation: “Let all things be done decently and in order”. That’s a thought – about God’s Word.
RESPONSE
2. Where in your life is more order needed?
