GOD WAS NEVER THE AUTHOR OF DISORDER

“For by him all things were created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible…and he is before all things, and by him all things consist” (COLOSSIANS 1:16-17)

Everywhere I look in the created world I see God—and my soul is delighted!

 

I look into a dry, old book that looks like a telephone directory gone mad—we call it a lexicon—and I find that in the New Testament the word “world” means “an orderly arranged system, highly decorative, which is tended, cared for and provided for.”

 

Anyone who knows God, even slightly, would expect God to make an orderly world because God Himself is the essence of order. God was never the author of disorder—whether it be in society, in the home, or in the mind or body of man.

 

I have noticed that some people let themselves go to seed in a number of ways, thinking it makes them more spiritual—but I disagree. I think it is proper to comb your hair, if you have any! I do not think it is a mark of deep inward spirituality for a man to forget that a soiled shirt is easily cleaned and that baggy trousers were originally meant to have an orderly crease. God is not grieved when His Christian children take a little time every day for neatness and cleanness.

 

Neither do I think that our Lord is grieved by a service of worship in which we know what we are going to sing and what we are going to preach—because God is a God of order!