Order

Life is about order. In fact lives lived without order, are generally lives without purpose. So if order is so important then where did it come from? There are four scriptures in Matthew that, in my mind, define order as God would have us understand it. Getting this order right in your life is the key to everything in your future. Below is Matthew 22:36-40 and here is why I think this scripture may be the most important scripture in the Bible.

³⁶ “Teacher, which is the most important commandment in the law of Moses?” ³⁷ Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ A second is equally important: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”

This scripture puts order in our lives by telling us that loving God comes before everything else, period, and it tell us that loving each other as ourselves comes next. There is absolute order in this scripture. Here's how, I believe, it affects our lives.

1) The Bible is God's Word and therefore it is without fault, but your life will never be completely changed by it without first living out steps one and two.

2) You will not find the love of your life and live an amazing God centered marriage until you get steps one and two done.

3) You may never find the career your heart has dreamed of until you get steps one and two taken care of. Maybe you already have that job and can't see it because you missed steps one and two.

4) The key to repairing your finances begins with getting step one and two done first.

5) The key to repairing past broken relationship comes after steps one and two.

6) The key to fulfilling a life long dream comes after steps one and two.

7) The key to becoming a great leader comes after steps one and two.

8) The key to building a great ministry comes after steps one and two.

9) The key to building a great company comes after steps one and two.

10) The key to forgiveness is in steps one and two.

11) The key to hope in your life is in steps one and two.

I could go on and on but hopefully you get the point. To have order in our lives we must first follow God's order for getting there. It's easy to look at people who have wealth, fame, power, and success and think they have it all, but those things are deceiving because they are the Worlds Order. Having God's order in your life brings peace, forgiveness, love, grace, kindness and purpose.

I am certainly not a rich man by the worlds standard, but when I look at my wife, my boys, my family, my career, my home, our health, and the incredible peace and hope we all share, I know I am truly a blessed man. I wouldn't trade one of those things for everything Bill Gates has.

Can you imagine how many lives would be changed if all the Bill Gates of world understood this order!

John

Comments

[Grant Clark]

Preach it brother. Once you get this in order then everything else in life makes sense. Grant