Setting His House In Order

I've heard it said "God is not a God of disorder, but of Peace (1 Corinthians 14:33a)." Or, put another way, "God is a God of order."

The statement comes from 1 Corinthians 14, a chapter in which Paul is reminding the church to maintain order during worship; to give everything, from prophecy to teaching, its place.

But right from the beginning, we see our God is indeed a God of order.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. (Genesis 1:1-2)

So, as God started to create the world, it was at first without shape. It was chaotic. But we can see from reading and from experience, that's not how it stayed. God set the Universe in order, placed planets around a star called the Sun, built on one of those planets a habitat for life, put together that life, set the moon, established times for day and for night.

As the world seems to spiral out of control around us, as war and sin and death surround us, we can praise God because He will not let this chaos last for long. 

Before Jesus was crucified, He was tried. As He was being questioned, they asked Him outright: are you the Messiah?

 “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.” (Mark 14:62)

Satan may have the reigns of this world for now, but God is coming, we are promised, to set His house in order. He ordered the Beginning, and He will reset that order in the New Beginning. We know this, not only because Scripture tells us He will, but because it is in His nature to do so.