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We Are Made To Order

 
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"Without order in your life, you will realize that you will only be busy but without commensurate results." 
~ Sunday Adelaja, Pastor

🍂 I love autumn.  Especially now that I don't have to lay down in the aisles of the store & cry when I see school supplies showing up in July.  (I still get excited about buying a new planner though.) 

Yes, I put my fall decorations up in August because 1) my house/my rules, and 2) it's really hard to break a 25 year old habit of once school starts it is really considered fall.  

🍂 And it's my happy place.  I've blogged several times about surrounding yourself with things you love, and I love everything to do with fall - the colors, the smell of leaves falling, the crisper evenings, football & hockey, the foods- candy corn, hot apple cider, pumpkin spice lattes. 


Plus, it's almost boot season so I can finally quit worrying about what my feet look like.

🍂 Nature has an order - wildlife starts storing up for the winter, foliage changes, the garden ripens, weather changes.  The plants go dormant, the days get shorter, birds migrate, everything adapts.  God thought of it ALL.  

"For God is not a God of confusion but of peace." 1 Cor 14:33


God created the world and all it contains in 6 days, even resting on the 7th.  He creates babies in the womb so that the heart, nervous system and brain begin developing around the 5th or 6th week, and then provides for its needs with an environment til birth.  

The different animal and plant species He made adapt to their habitats.  The earth He formed rotates the exact needed distance around the sun to sustain life. The codes within a DNA molecule carry specific genetic information to build cells.



🍂 None of this happened by chance.  When God goes from the macro to the micro and embeds such detail in both, why would we ever question any part of what He has done and can do?  

"For by Him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-all things were created through Him and for Him.  And He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together." 
Col 1:16-17


🍂 What is on your heart today?  What is on your family/friend's heart today that you are walking through with them?  Take them a pumpkin spice latte and remind them of the God we serve- who desires that we come to Him and lay our burdens at His feet - 

"Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need." Heb 4:16


🍂 He has designed us as intricately as He did everything in the universe, and knows our  needs, strengths and desires.  He has established our steps (Ps 37:23) and works all things together for our good  because we are called according to His purpose (Rom 8:28).  

Let's not make any room in our lives for doubt, distrust or lack of confidence in just how big our God is.  Combat the thoughts with the truth of God's word; for ourselves and the people we do life with.  Be familiar with what He's done; trust Him for what He's doing even when it doesn't make sense.  

Otherwise we are just spinning our wheels and hoping in idols - anything that is not God.

🍂 He is the God of order;  we are uniquely created by Him out of pure Love, without any mistakes.  

✙ Heavenly Father, You have made it clear in Your Word to us that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, knit together in the womb.  You knew when we would live on this earth, and the challenges we would face.  You have placed others in our lives to be encouraged by us and to encourage us.  Thank You for being the one and only true God that doesn't change and doesn't make mistakes.  Help us to know You better and love you more deeply.  Amen.   

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 13, 2024 at 12:38 PM

    Please, don't ever stop writing, you have a gift, your words speak to my soul!!

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    Thank you for the encouraging words!!

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