THE PASTOR'S CORNER

I found this observation very helpful:

I want to talk about what chaos really is, and how we could not live without it.
The word "chaos" comes from the Greek word for formless matter. It does not have a shape that lasts through time. It is not predictable. Chaos is all the random, patternless, haphazard stuff in our universe.  [Next], heat is a form of chaos. This is an actual definition of heat that you could find in almost any physics book: Heat is the random movement of atoms. The higher the temperature, the greater the randomness of the movement of the atoms. [Finally], heat is an essential part of all living things; all living things have heat. Life cannot exist without the heat that is the random movement of atoms. If heat is chaos, and life cannot exist without heat, then life cannot exist without chaos. You know that if you put a thermometer in your mouth, you are not going to get a reading of zero. If you had no heat in your body, you would be dead. A dead person is a cold stiff. A live person is warm and flexible.  This randomness of life heat occurs on all possible levels ... chaos tends to behave in a similar fashion whether you are looking at atoms or humans or the universe. You know that randomness occurs in your life at more than just the atomic level .... Therefore, learn to appreciate the chaos in your life, because chaos is keeping you alive.
--Pam Walatka, "Chaos in Everyday Life," 1996, http://www.wildhorses.com, June 22, 1999.

This observation is helpful because there is a lot of chaos in our lives.  Once upon a time, a man said, “Life is one thing right after the other and then you die.”  We see times that are mundane.  We see times that are full of stress.  Whether we are tired, excited or frightened, there is always something going on to challenge who we are.  The good news that I wanted to add to this observation on chaos is that while there may always be a little bit of that going on in your life, and while in an ironic way, the chaos maybe a form of God’s grace to keep you alive, God also gave you Christ to bring order and salvation to the chaos.  It is written, Eph 1:9-10, 9“And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment-to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.” NIV

If you are spiritually suffering, please know that Christ is your head.  Christ is in control and Christ will bring order to the chaos of whatever life situation you face.  May that assurance find you and give you peace.

Bro. Joe.