Propulsion through Commotion

I have been sick this week as I stated in my last blog I have been dealing with a late summer cold. I don’t get sick very often and when I do I really hate it. The only upswing is that it forces me to slow down and be still. This week is my son’s last week before he starts college and I’ve had a lot of time to reflect. He is always talking to me about some music group or world event and they are not limited to present, he loves history too.

We had a debate about whether or not the 80s was the best decade I am an 80s kid so for me it is. I look at his generation and see a lot of chaos in the world, truthfully it saddens my heart. Times are very different than when I grew up some for the better some for the worst. You gotta take the bad with the good so the saying goes (I think that is hogwash).

Chaos is a word I have used several times this week. I have a dear friend of mine that is traveling and she is about to enter into what I call chaos, that is a lack of order. I reminded her to represent order in her travels. We serve a God that calls forth order out of chaos, that is He stabilizes and gives peace no matter the atmosphere (should we seek His assistance). 2 Timothy 1:7 For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control. I love this scripture and I remind myself of it on a regular basis because I need the reminder. Fear has a way of settling into my thoughts.

Sometimes chaos is born from fear and confusion and a gross ignorance. God did not create us to have a spirit of fear but of power, love, and self-control. Power to endure hard times and persevre, love to display great compassion and mercy extending it even to those that are underserving, and self-control because we are created to live with discipline, to self-restrain when needed.

There are times in life it just seems as though chaos follows us but we are not meant to be victims of chaos; we were created to be conquers through Jesus Christ. Romans 8:37 ³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

No matter what kind of mayhem (confusion or mess) you confront or what type of confusion that surrounds you remember, you are more than a conqueror through Jesus Christ, He empowers you to be so much more than a wounded person or victim but a victor in every regard to life. His love trumps all chaos that may follow us.

Good Afternoon Ladies… 😊

PS. We have to be locomotion through commotion.