Jason Forbes
Disability Advocate
Life is a great blessing. Yet we do experience disorder for multiple reasons. As disorientating as disorder may be, it is not beyond God’s purposes for us. We have seen how from disorder God made the heavens and the earth. This gives us a rock-solid basis for confidence that God can and will bring order to disorder in our lives. Whether it is personal, political, spiritual in our relationship with God, or devotional. God’s purposes for us may not be as we would wish. But we can be confident that it will be for his glory, and better than any of us can possibly imagine.
If we have such confidence, then we have a great incentive to pursue God’s ways and to hold dear the things that God values – grace, mercy, justice, forgiveness, patience, righteousness, forbearance, thankfulness. No doubt there will be time when pursuing God’s ways will be extremely difficult and costly. Experiencing disorder is challenging! How great the temptation to respond to disorder by making our own glory known and create more disorder. If we yield to such temptation, how much more we will disorientate ourselves and those around us with our own disorder?
But, if we learn to rest in God, our enjoyment of God’s order will be so much more. Not only will we, ourselves, be blessed, but those around us will also be blessed. This does not mean we will have a happy and carefree life. Far from it! God’s order may involve disability, sickness, and hardship. Yet, even in what we may consider as disorder, we may find a strange and glorious order emerging. Because God creates order from disorder.