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Summary: God has the miraculous ability to bring order to the chaos of our lives!
Today…I want to talk to you about God’s ability to bring order where there’s chaos.
Scenes of Chaos:
Sometimes our lives can become chaotic. At times…the chaos is inevitable…situations / circumstances out of our own
control can create chaos. Still…there are times where our own action / inaction is the source of the chaos we are
experiencing.
Psalm 51:10 (NIV) - “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”
So this is David’s prayer after being confronted by the prophet Nathan about his affair with Bathsheba and the killing of
her husband, Uriah.
David is repentant. He’s humbled. But his life is filled with chaos as a result of his own choices.
Listen to the wording The Message Bible uses when expressing David’s prayer in Ps. 51:10. “God, make a fresh start in
me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.”
Fresh Starts are great! Clearing the deck. Wiping the slate clean. New beginnings. I love a clean…blank piece of paper.
New…clean sheets on the bed! A new book.
“God, I can’t make a fresh start in my own power…step into my situation and bring order / peace to my chaos.”
“God…I’ve made a mess of things…forgive me…but don’t just forgive me…help me…turn things around!”
If something is “Fresh”…it is: New, not previously known, not stained or spoiled, youthful, healthy, vigorous, dynamic.
David is saying, “Lord, launch something creatively new and healthy in the innermost part of who I am…my heart…my
mind…my soul.
Example: Watching the glass blower at Silver Dollar City shape a lump glass into something beautiful.
That glass blower is: fashioning something…giving it definite shape…fabricating something beautifully formed out of
something formless.
That’s what David is asking God to do…and that’s what God can do out of the chaos of your life as well. From the very
beginning…God has taken chaos and created beauty in it’s place.
Genesis 1:1,2 - “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and
darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.”
The Message describes the state of things at the beginning of creation as being, “…a soup of nothingness, a bottomless
emptiness, an inky blackness.”
The Living Bible puts it this way, “…the earth was a shapeless, chaotic mass.”
There is nothing hopeful in this…except…God’s Spirit was there…hovering over the chaos.
And it’s into this soup of nothingness…this bottomless emptiness…this inky blackness…this chaotic mess…that God starts
to bring order. God brings meaning and significance and beauty where there had been only chaos.
God is still doing the same thing today. The H.S. was hovering over the chaos of David’s life…and He’s hovering over the
chaos of your life…just waiting to respond to God’s creative, life-giving, declarative Word over your life.
He takes things & people who have no significance…and uses them to accomplish monumental / eternal things.
He takes hopeless / dark / utter confusion…and speaks vision / brings light / and delivers peace…where there was none.
I’m here to remind you…there has never been a time God was not. There has never been a time…God wan’t in control.
He was there before the chaos…He was there when there was nothing but chaos…and He was there after the chaos.
Think about this: Before there was a created “order”…there was a created “chaos” over which the Spirit hovered.
Nothing catches God off guard. He never panics. We serve a God who brings order out of chaos. He can still take your
mess and mine…and make something beautiful out of it.
We live in a chaotic world…filled with people who are living chaotic lives. Lives that are without form and void. Lives that
are empty…lacking…in disarray…upheaval…shambles. There are so many people who are desparately in need of some
kind of escape from the mess they’ve made from their lives. Can I just declare it to you?…We have the answer! We have
a God that can take the most chaotic of situations and create something beautiful out of it all. We have a God that we
can trust when things in life go wrong. Who brings order to the chaos of our lives.
God’s willingness and ability to bring order out of chaos is a central Biblical theme.
Adam & Eve
Jonah
Psalm 139 tells me that there is nowhere God is not. That means He is with us…even when things are falling apart. He’s
with us…in the chaos. Regardless of how it may feel at the time…regardless of how things may appear…we are not
alone…God is at work. He can bring something out of nothing. My failure isn’t fatal. The darkness…the confusion…the
turmoil…the chaos…isn’t the end of the story.
I believe God wants to bring a Genesis Week into the chaos of your life. I believe He wants to bring order to your mess. I
believe His Spirit is hovering over the chaos of your life…even at this moment.
I believe He wants you to experience light instead of darkness. Order instead of chaos. Discernment instead of
confusion. Energy, life, and vitality…instead of lethargy. Abundance instead of lack.
Perhaps you’re here and you…Like David could use a “Genesis Week.” You echo Psalm 51:10…“God…shape a Genesis
Week from the chaos of my life.”
Good News…He is still in the creation business. In Revelation 21:5, Jesus says, “…Behold, I make all things new!”
He is a turn-around God!
The list could go on and on! In everyway…He is ready to meet you in your need. He is able to shape a Genesis week from
the chaos of your life!
CLOSING:
I love comeback stories! (Larry Bird / The Patriots in the Super Bowl / Kirk Gibson)
One of my favorite stories is the story of Bernie Marcus. Bernie was the son of a poor Russian cabinet maker in Newark,
New Jersey. In 1978, he was fired from a do-it-yourself retail store called HANDY DAN. What do you do when you’re
fired from HANDY DAN? Well…Bernie teamed up with a guy named Arthur Blank…and they decided to start their own
business. They opened their first store in Atlanta. It was called THE HOME DEPOT. Today…they have stores all over the
world and their annual income is in the billions. Now…that’s a great comeback story!
Today…God wants to take those areas of your life that are lacking…and begin to prosper those very same areas. The
days of barrenness are coming to an end.
Today…God wants to take the chaos in your family, work, finances, health, emotions, and bring vitality.
He can take it…regardless of how chaotic it’s become…and He can speak order and bring beauty into any situation.