By Jessica Brodie
Have you ever been to an orchestra concert? My son plays the viola in an orchestra, so we’ve been to plenty over the years. Before the concert gets started, everybody’s warming up onstage, and it sounds like a chaos of noise. But then, at last, a single note rings out as the concertmaster plays, and the other string instruments strive to match that note, perfectly in tune. In an instant, chaos becomes order. Soon enough, the conductor onstage lifts his or her hands, and beautiful music begins to soar.
I think of that chaos sometimes when I think of our world. Everybody’s busy doing their own thing and experiencing their own troubles. People are born and they die. Marriages begin and they end. We go about our work and rush around in traffic and weave in and out of our days, and it’s all just . . . noise sometimes. But then a single note rings out, God’s whisper! His beautiful breath of life. And suddenly our ears attune to him. Our voices become slow and steady, our work stills, and we—along with all creation—turn to honor the One, the Creator, the Alpha and the Omega, the Lord God Almighty.
I imagine that’s how it will be in the end days when the trumpet sounds. I imagine that’s how it was in the Garden of Eden when God spoke the universe into creation. I imagine that’s how it was when Elijah so desperately craved hearing God’s voice in his darkness and finally realized it was there—not in the wind or the earthquake or the raging fire, but in the whisper (1 Kings 19:11-13).
God speaks order into creation again and again, and what can we mere human beings do but stop everything and listen?
We are so busy and distracted all the time, my friends. All of us that distraction is a tool Satan uses to confuse us and skew our priorities. But we serve a God of order, balance, love, and perfection—not chaos.
I imagine that is why Psalm 46:10 resonates with so many of us: “Be still, and know that I am God,” the Lord said (NIV). Be still, all you people. Settle down all your rushing to and fro and bask in his timeless knowledge and merciful peace.
We are not God, and we are not gods. But we are oh, so blessed, to belong to him.
May we surrender our hearts and our minds and our souls to him daily, now and forever.
A Prayer: Heavenly God, thank You so much for Your calm, true, perfect, and steady presence and love. Help us look to You even when the world feels like chaos. Help us remember You are the truth and nothing else matters. Amen.
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