Order of Chaos?

Written by Pastor McCarty on January 6, 2014. Posted in Pastors Pen

Oh, boy, mom won’t be happy about this mess!  Looks like someone hasn’t been very careful in putting things away.

Have you heard about hoarders?  They have become popular enough for a television show.  Hoarders are people that have no self-control  when it come to getting things.  Some order unnecessary things and never open them.  Others just won’t throw away an old magazine or newspapers.  Things simply pile up higher and higher until the person can barely get around in their own home.  Simply put, it is chaos!

Yet, each one of us has that same choice every day.  We might not stress over throwing away an old newspaper.  And, maybe our offices don’t look like this. But, our lives are made up of one out of control decision after another.

The Apostle Paul says, “Stop being dunk with wine which leads to dissipation.” (Eph. 5:18)  Now, I don’t know about you, but I don’t use the word “dissipation” much!  Other translations use the English word “debauchery.”  The Greek word Paul uses points out a wasteful life style.  It has the idea of scattering things randomly.  Much like a tornado, a life out of control simply turns life into chaos.

What about us?  Are we living orderly or chaotically?  Sunday we will look into steps that lead to orderly lives.

YOUR CHOICE

Tags: chaos, choices, choose, Epistle to the Ephesians, God, Jesus, mess, messy, Order, tornado

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