Ever feel overwhelmed with disorder? A sock drawer, garage, or budget? It seems the more I look, the more things I find that need organized or reorganized.

Wait. Is God a God of order?

He may not have had a day planner for creation, but God no doubt had a plan. The first thing He did was replace chaos with order (Gen 1). Creation had to have a specific order. Before people could exist, land, water, oxygen, and plants (for food) needed to be created.

When Noah, who had never seen a boat, built the ark, God must have guided the order of the build-out. And there’s no way all the animals arrived at the same time to board. God must have set some schedule of internal signaling.

God guided Joshua regarding the order in conquering the thirty-one Canaanite kings. And the Holy Spirit led Paul when to preach in what cities on each of his missionary journeys.

We can be reassured, “God is not a God of disorder but of peace” (1 Corinthians 14:33a). Paul applies this to the church, writing, “But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way” (1 Corinthians 14:40).

As a child of God, we are reminded God has a good plan and purpose for our lives (Jeremiah 29:11; Romans 8:28). Remember, “[W]e are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” (Ephesians 2:10).

In order to do those good works, our lives need to be ordered so we have time to do the work He prepared for us. We need to pray over plans and follow the Lord’s lead. Let’s begin by asking and listening for Him to order our day today.