Sunday morning I made the comment that obedience to God is often accompanied by a time of chaos. I'll go further and say that obedience to God creates chaos! Remember, chaos is simply another way to describe conflict.
Few things place us in conflict (sometimes even within ourselves -- see Romans 7) like hearing from and choosing to obey God. By the way, chaos is also the result of disobeying God. So, it looks like life is always going to turbulent.
My particular concern at our church right now is not to protect us from chaos, but to protect us from the Enemy using chaos to divide us. We have taken on an incredible number of major changes in how we are doing ministry. It stresses all of us -- especially now that the changes are upon us -- not safely out in the future.
We must all be careful. Any one of us is capable of doing things or saying things that will wind up being destructive to the fellowship and even to the larger Kingdom of God. It's more than ok to be nervous -- but not fearful. It's ok to disagree -- but not to be contentious.
What will the next few weeks and months bring us? Chaos. The great news is that chaos brought on by being obedient to God is a great thing if it drives us back to our Father. Chaos is wonderful if it means we've stopped playing it safe and starting living out on the edge of the light we have -- and even dared to step into the darkness, based only on what we heard God tell us. After all, isn't that what faith is?
Buckle up. It's going to be a wild ride!
Ken
1 comment:
I think Chaos is great! I had their first album, but it was on vinyl and my little brother tried to play it using a paper clip. It kept skipping after that but not in that cool hip hop way. Anyway, any church that is having Chaos in for a concert is alright with me. Even if they are like, I don't know, older than the Stones. Rock on!
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