God’s Original Genesis Intention

Some people see a puzzle as a jumbled box of chaos. It’s really a box of expertly created order separated into five hundred pieces. We’re invited to bring order to it. But we have to see past the mess of pieces—to the larger image—to do so.

What if part of our destiny is to bring order to disorder?

Order is without question harder to bring into existence than disorder. Anyone can demolish what is. But destroyers rarely have blueprints for rebuilding something of beauty and order.

But let’s not mistake order for control. There’s an ocean of difference between the two. In fact, let’s use the ocean as an example. When God creates a body of water, the ocean is the result.

Who else has held the oceans in his hand? Who has measured off the heavens with his fingers? (Isaiah 40:12 NLT)

The ocean is wild and untamed. It is beyond our control . . . but full of life. When humans try to create a body of water, we get a swimming pool. It is temperature controlled, depth controlled, chlorine controlled, and filter controlled. It is totally controlled, and it has no life.

Pursuing order is a creative act that restores things back to God’s original Genesis intention. It brings freedom and life to something that has become disordered and no longer the truest form of what it was meant to be.

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