Taking It to Work:
Our God is a God of order. Look at His creation. There is order in everything around us. We can look out to the farthest reaches of space, and then look in our own backyard, and order is all we see.
The entire cosmos works together unaided, like a perfect timepiece that needs never to be wound. In our bodies, every heartbeat and every breath works with a thousand other systems to maintain life in every fiber of our being. The chemical balance within the kidney is precisely controlled, the fluid pressure in every cell is maintained, and our sleep tonight will initiate a series of brainwaves that defy even the experts to explain their purpose, rhythm and order.
Without repeatability, consistency, and order within the universe, down to details like how long a single oak leaf stays on the tree, or how and when water condenses in the sky to give life-giving rain to the earth, without order and repeatability, all that we know, and all that He has created would crumble, and at an atomic level, even matter itself would cease.
For me, His order all around me is absolute evidence of His existence. It is His consistent fingerprint on all there is.
What does that have to do with work? Well, look at all the best running companies, machines, or people. What do they all have in common? Organization. There is not one Fortune 500 company that runs without repeatable processes, standards of operation and consistent procedures.
Precision mechanisms don’t run long with loose parts, extra pieces, or missing hardware, and successful people are most successful with discipline and order in their lives. Disorder, discord and chaos – science calls them entropy, and they are the enemy of any system and of any life.
We are created in His image. We are called to be His reflection. Many of us struggle with this character trait of keeping our lives in order. Other things seem more important than getting organized, and we learn to live and operate in a near-chaotic environment. We can even operate at work with habits and practices that are inefficient and unproductive for lack of order.
On a regular basis, take time to create organization and order in your life. It is a Godly activity that reflects Him, His ways, and His world. It will increase your yield in your workplace, and in your everyday living, as His Word works in your life, today.
1Cor 14:40 (ESV) – But all things should be done decently and in order.
Heb 1:10 (ESV) – And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands…
Titus 1:5 (ESV) – This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained i nto order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you.
Ps 139:14 (ESV) – I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Rom 1:20 (ESV) – For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Listening to the Holy Spirit (Rhema):
The detail of creation is in great order. My Name is recognized by those with My Spirit in this great detail and order. Reflection of its Creator is the creation. In the same way, the order within your life reflects Myself. Work demands such order; without order there is loss. With enough loss there is loss of function, and the system ordained for efficiency dies for lack of order and detail. My creation is example to you. Create systems of order in your workplace. Disorder is of chaos and destruction. In My Word and ways there emerges order. The fruit you bear will be of order; of disorder fruit is lost. Children must have order to develop; families suffer for lack of it, so too the workplace. My children know My ways, and peace and fruit come with order. You develop as My child, in all of life, when you follow My way of order.
