SCRIPTURE: God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Psalm 51:10 MSG
THOUGHT: In the opening lines of the Great Story of God, the hero of the story hovers over soupy nothingness – chaos, really. Then, he begins to speak into it, creating good out of what was not. Order, goodness, humanity, animals, plants, LIFE, and light – out of all that disorder.
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that life here is just all a bunch of randomness. That biology doesn’t matter. That life is meaningless. We may not understand everything, but as I see it these days, understanding things doesn’t really lead to flourishing. We fiddle with life and try to make everything come out better. Eradicate disease. Make the crop yield more. Make the company yield more. Make the relationship yield more. Make the self yield more. Make the perfect baby – or eradicate it in the name of a better life.
We fiddle until we create chaos.
There is something far deeper than understanding how things work, where things went wrong, and who needs to change. There is the God factor. The deeper magic as C.S. Lewis imagined it. The miracle that evades human understanding and logic and research: That a powerful, loving, just, gracious force beyond understanding can speak into the chaos of a life and bring forth good out of what was not.
Such is the nature of redemption and if there is no other reason to believe in a big Triune God, that is enough.
PRAYER: Oh God, I worship you. Creator. Redeemer. Restorer. God over chaos in a way that humans can never achieve. I don’t worship you because I need a crutch – I worship you because you are God and I am not.
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