You’re out of order, mister!

You wake up at the crack of noon and load the family, still in pj’s and bunny-feet slippers, into the car and head for the local pizza buffet.

After indulging in multiple types of pizzas by the slice and a few games for the kids, you head home and start the laundry.

Once the laundry is folded and put away, you change your clothes and head for the office …

Wait, that isn’t how the average day is done. We don’t usually start with lunch and household chores before going to work.

Usually, there’s an order to our day, one that makes sense and gives flow to meeting our responsibilities and providing opportunity to do some things we like.

Most of us apply a sense of order to our daily activities. Likewise, we also usually attempt to apply some kind of order to our lives as well. Therein can be the problem: you can’t apply order to your life without knowing what the order is.

God has designed everything to have order to it.

“He is the God who made the world and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven and earth, he doesn’t live in man-made temples, and human hands can’t serve his needs — for he has no needs. He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he satisfies every need. From one man he created all the nations throughout the whole earth. He decided beforehand when they should rise and fall, and he determined their boundaries,” Acts 17:24-26.

“But be sure that everything is done properly and in order,” 1 Corinthians 14:40.

“For God is not a God of disorder but of peace …” 1 Corinthians 14:33a.

All the way from how the cosmos functions, to how a marriage works right, God has weaved order into His creation. Foundational to that order is this:

“Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see — such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. He existed before anything else, and he holds all creation together. Christ is also the head of the church, which is his body. He is the beginning, supreme over all who rise from the dead. So he is first in everything,” Colossians 1:15-18.

The starting place for order in anything is found in the final sentence of the passage quoted above: “So he is first in everything.”

When you want to bring order to your life, Christ has to be first. Attempting to order your life any other way creates disorder because everything will be out of order.

Are you trying to order your life without Christ being first? How’s that working out for you?

Scotty