Peace Verses Chaos
Last week, we read about the story of Creation -- how the Spirit of God hovered over the waters, how He spoke into the chaos and darkness and brought about the beauty and order of Earth. This month has been a rough one for me. It seemed like every catastrophe was hitting, one right after the other. I was reeling. I felt like Job -- blindsided by a series of tragedies, yet hoping in God. And I hung onto the fact that his story turns out with things being restored and, beyond that, they were even better than before. A friend started talking to me about chaos. And that word latched into my mind as a pretty good way to describe what my life was looking like. She said that Shalom -- the peace that encompasses perfect wholeness, with nothing missing and nothing broken -- is a two-sided coin. One is bringing in that perfect peace and the other is kicking out the powers that cause the chaos. Remove the chaos and establish the pea...