Heart Tracks - Lord Over The Chaos

"I am the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End." Revelation 22:13...."He existed before anything else, and He holds all creation together." Colossians 1:17

So often in His early ministry, Jesus would state some great truth about His Father or Himself. Truth that most often boggled the earth bound minds of His listeners. Often in the midst of His response to the deep needs of those who came to Him, He would speak His truth, and then ask, "Do you believe this?" He has not changed in His approach. He continues to state His truth, His promises, and they continue to boggle our minds. Oftentimes His listeners would hear His words and ask, "How can this be?" That too is unchanged. Multitudes sit in church gatherings each week, and if the Word of God is being preached, are hearing these same mind boggling words. We too ask, "How can this be?" Far too often we conclude it cannot, and so we leave untouched, unchanged, unconvinced.

Yesterday morning in our men's prayer, our lead pastor asked those present to use a word or sentence to describe something we believed about Jesus. The first thing that came to my mind was the combination of the above Scriptures. Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the First and Last, the Beginning and the End. He is also the One in whom all things created holds together. That means that there is absolutely no part of the universe, or that is contained in that universe, that Jesus Christ and His power, His Lordship, is not Sovereign over. Jesus states these truths, and then He asks, "Do you believe this?" Do we? Do you?

There has been more than once occasion when my world has collapsed around me. All that I had believed was there no longer was. Chaos was everywhere, stability nowhere. Chaos scares me. It scares all of us, yet in Genesis, we're told that God hovered over the chaos of Creation. He still hovers over the chaos. More, He is Lord over all of it. Into our chaos He comes and He announces, promises, that He is Lord over its beginning, over its end, and is in complete control as Lord in the midst of it. He tells us to get our eyes off of the chaos around us and upon the One who is Lord over all chaos. He speaks His promises in that chaos, and then asks, "Do we believe this?" Again, do we? Do you?

Today you may be in the midst of chaos. To you He speaks, promises, and asks, "Do you believe?" If not today, than surely in some tomorrow, you will be. He will speak, He will promise, will we believe? He is the Lord over all chaos, but only we can decide if we will believe that.

Blessings,
Pastor O