Yesterday a friend told me she’d heard vaccinations are being forced on children in Australia, and their police were going door to door looking for “anti-vaxxers!”. (Spoiler alert: this is not true! It’s a social media generated fake news report). She was shocked and frightened, worrying the same things would happen here. Thanks, social media, for helping spread the fear! The chaos still rages on, and I’ve asked Jesus why He hasn’t calmed the storm.
Then I listened to a song by Jason Grey that gave me insight into what I believe is going on right now with the chaos. He introduced his new song, Order Disorder Reorder, by telling how he clings to stability and hates change. He said he often feels punished or abandoned by God when his order turns to disorder, but now believes God uses these seasons to reorder his life to make Him more Christlike.
The song goes like this: I thought everything was as it should be. I believed that it was all up to me as if I was in control. Then I lost everything I thought that I knew. I couldn’t see that You were leading me to something beautiful. Order, disorder, reorder, over and over. It wouldn’t be the way I choose. But this is how You make me new. So here I am, I’m all in. Though it feels like falling. That’s what it takes for You to break through, order, disorder, reorder. I thought the storm would never come to an end. I begged You again and again to send a miracle. But the storm was the way You broke my heart open wide to get to what was hidden inside and call it beautiful. Order, disorder, reorder, over and over. It wouldn’t be the way I choose. But this is how You make me new. ”
I do not believe God sent COVID. But God uses everything this world or the devil throws at us to fashion a Church that looks like His Son. Right now, we don’t look anything like Jesus. At least not in this Country. As long we keep defending our right to be hateful with each other and keep throwing rocks at people who don’t believe the way we do, we are not letting God reorder us to turn us into the embodiment of love.
Last week I cited a verse by Jesus that talks about getting the log out of our own eye so we can help others with the speck in theirs. This week I want to give you the verse I see in so many people’s yards right now. It says, “if my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
I believe our “wicked ways” are not loving others the way Jesus loves us. Let’s be humble enough to admit that, and pray God uses all this disorder to reorder our hearts into something beautiful.
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