By Jessica Brodie
Do you use one of those little pill organizers to keep track of daily medication or vitamins? I definitely do, and even my teenage kids do, too.
I don’t know about you, but for me it’s easy to forget to take medicine or vitamins if it’s not right in front of me or in an easy-to-remember place. In the past, I’d forget to take my daily multivitamin if it was just in a drawer, or if my allergy medication was in the medicine cabinet. Having things portioned out in a neat little case, some for the day and some for the night, helps me remember better and keep me organized. Life can get chaotic, crazy, and out of control sometimes, but little daily organizational life hacks help a ton. They simplify and order things in a way that feels logical and easy.
You may or may not be an organized person—and there is absolutely nothing wrong with being either. We all do life in different ways.
But over the years I’ve really understood what a blessing it is to be organized, and it reminds me of an important truth about God. Our God—Yahweh, King of the Universe, the Alpha and the Omega—is everything! He is beautiful, perfect, righteous, and true … and he is absolutely, 100 percent the epitome of organization. We do not serve a God of chaos or disorganization. Our God is a God of perfect control, fully aware of all things at all times. Nothing slips by him. Nothing is an accident or a mistake. Everything has a proper place with our God.
Even if we don’t have life under control, even if we’re not perfectly organized, that’s OK—we belong to God, and we can trust that God has everything handled according to his perfect and righteous purpose.
As 1 Corinthians 14:33 reminds us, “God is not a God of confusion but of peace” (ESV).
Here are just a few key examples of God’s organizational perfection:
Order is present throughout creation. From the perfect symmetry of a maple leaf to the strands of DNA in each of us to the way we are designed to breathe the exact molecules found in our air, God left nothing to chance.
God’s rules are full of righteous order. Consider the how the stringent dietary instructions he gave his people through Moses were designed to keep them alive and thriving in the land where they lived and their biological needs at that time. Consider the detailed plans he gave for building his tabernacle.
God’s early church is an example of organizational genius. He designed the church to receive loving oversight from his apostles, but the real head was no human at all but Jesus, the Son of God. In many churches it’s still that way today.
God has a plan for the future. We might not know everything about that plan, but he’s told us he has one, Jesus confirmed this, and the apostle John even received a vivid vision (which we can read—the Book of Revelation) sharing with us many aspects of what is to come.
So whether you do or don’t use a pill case to organize your vitamins or medications, whether your desk is or is not clean, or your house is or is not neat, or your laundry is or is not done with everything folded just right and put away, that doesn’t matter.
What does matter is knowing in your soul that God has everything in perfect, organized, beautiful control. And because of that, we are safe and secure, now and forever.
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