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Leave Me Alone, I Like My Chaos
So I finished up Colossians this morning for the 493844 time. Kind of sad it is over. I could spend hours talking about Colossians. This one particular verse stood out this morning. Notice that it is a choice. Paul is telling us to “let” the peace rule. Give it permission. Choose to be at peace. Therefore we must also assume that we “let” chaos rule in our hearts as well. We give it permission to take over. So, I choose to be at peace or chaos. When my wife’s mirror gets knocked off by the car wash, the tire is almost flat, my face gets hit with a disc giving me eight beautiful yet very expensive stitches, and the tax man comes a knockin’, I can choose to let all that chaos dominate my heart and become frustrated, angry, bitter, and out of control. Or I could just allow the peace of Christ to rule in my heart.
There is no place like it. It is pretty much impossible to describe in words. The Bible refers to it as “surpassing all understanding”. It just doesn’t make sense to our finite minds. Some of us thrive on chaos. At least that is what we have convinced ourselves. We have told ourselves that life is fast, it is hard, it is ruthless, and it is always changing and unpredictable and if we don’t do something right now we are going to miss something. So we accept that it is this way and succumb to the chaos, the business, the constant struggle of working and toiling and we let our hearts take on the same patterns.
God is the God of peace. Wholeness and stability. Remember, He doesn’t change like our lovely economy. Constant. Stable. Whole. Peaceful. It is just one aspect of who He is. We can choose to let that rule in our lives or the terror and dread of our 401K’s vanishing, the anxiousness of relationships, the trick of “busyness equals successfulness”, or any other chaotic scenarios we see before us these days. Choose to let the peace rule in your heart. Be still. Remember who you are inside. Be reminded of the Truth. Listen for a change. Be at rest for a change.
Unraveling and Empty
“… and in Him all things hold together.” Colossians 1:17
“and you have been given fullness in Christ…” Colossians 2:10
Have you ever felt like your life was unraveling and falling apart? Like the fabric of who you are was coming apart? Have you ever felt completely drained? The gauges are all on empty? Dried up? Have you ever had those moments where you simply feel incomplete? Off? Missing something?
I have. I wonder if our lack of closeness with Jesus has anything to do with this. I kind of think it does. The closer I get and the more I seek Him the more my life seems to be together and full. The times that I tune Him out and do things on my own are the times that everything unravels in my hands and my soul gets dried up. Remember He gives us life to the fullest. In Him we are complete. We need not look for anything else. Everything is in its right place. Doesn’t mean things are perfect and smooth. It means I have a deep peace and sense of fullness that no one can touch. It means that though things may be unraveling on the outside, the inside is solid. It all starts on the inside. The inside rules the outside. Why we insist on doing things our way I’ll never know. You would think we would learn after a while. It is all part of the journey I guess.
Upgrading My Image
So I have decided to give this Word Press program another shot. Maybe I can get on with my writing. I have no idea how to make it look “cool”. I don’t speak this language. I feel like I’m back in China trying to get around Beijing. The words do not resemble English at all. 
I have become way to image driven with this blog thing. Ha, I care more about what it looks like right now than what is in it. Terrible I know but hey, I like these things to appeal to all the senses. Maybe I could figure out a way to make smell come out of computers through the Internet. Hmmm…
