Order And Peace
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Is your life and worship orderly and peaceful? What does order and peace look and feel like in our lives and in our worship?
Our God is a God of order and of peace. This is why our lives and our worship should be distinctively ordered and full of God’s peace—the ordered shalom of God.
The first act of God in creation was bringing order out of chaos and creating where there was disordered nothingness.
The author of Genesis writes, “The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.” (Genesis 1:2-3, ESV).
Our God brings order where there is none. God brings light where there is darkness. God brings form out of formlessness. God does this while the Spirit of God hovers over in Peace.
In his letter to the church in Corinth, the Apostle Paul instructs, “For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints.” (1 Corinthians 14:33, ESV).
God is about order and peace, because God is a God of peace and order. There is no confusion in God. There is only ordered and peaceful clarity in him.
This is why Paul continued his letter, saying, “But all things should be done decently and in order.” (1 Corinthians 14:40, ESV).
Because God is decent and orderly, we are also to do all things decently and orderly.
May we experience God’s order and peace, as we follow him with clarity, and as we do all things decently and in order.
In Christ alone, Robbie
A Prayer For The Second Sunday After Pentecost: “Grant, O Lord, that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by your providence, that your Church may joyfully serve you in quiet confidence and godly peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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