Disordered Loves

Everything has a way about it.  You know…your morning routine, the way you put something together, the way you cook your favorite meal.  Things are ordered on purpose. Picture it…when you wake up rushed, or when you forget that piece in the middle of putting something together, or when you forget to add a certain ingredient.  It just doesn’t end up the way we thought it would.  Things just don’t work when they are out of order.

God always intend there to be a certain order to our lives.  His intent was that He would be first above all things. God states this directly in the first two commandments.  It wasn’t because He needs to be first, it’s because we need him to be first.  When we replace our Creator for something He has created the order that God intended is destroyed.  As we move God from his deserved position in our lives and replace Him with the pursuit of career, relationships, money, acclaim, you know the list, things just don’t end up the way we thought it would. We have so many promises for the good life in scripture.  The issue is they all have one hitch, PUT ME FIRST!   Why is this so hard? How do our loves become so disordered? Perhaps it is because we lose sight of the gift that was given us through God’s son on the cross. Tim Keller in the Prodigal God frames it this way,

 ”Money can’t die for us, popularity can’t die for us. There is nothing more beautiful in all of reality than the picture of a perfectly happy Being, leaving all the bliss of heaven, and sacrificing everything for the sake of rebellious, undeserving, ungrateful people. The more you look at Jesus doing that, the more you will love him above anyone or anything else. He will capture your heart so that nothing matters more than he does. When you see what he’s done for you, it makes the worst times bearable and the best times leave-able.”

Let’s get our lives in order and watch the awesome things God can do with a people FULLY devoted to Him.