I love organization. I love the feeling I get after a good organizing job. I love the way it looks, the clean, orderly look of the finished product.

I don’t know if you have ever organized anything (I really hope you have, because otherwise, I am afraid for what your life looks like), but organization takes work. It’s a process. You usually start with a mess (i.e. the need to organize), and then in order to truly get organized you create what looks like even more of a mess. If someone came into your bedroom while you were reorganizing your closet, they would likely find you in the midst of piles of shoes, clothes, jewelry, coats, luggage, forgotten memorabilia, among whatever else you people keep in your closets.

This person walking in might say, “Wow, looks like a real mess in here”. But you know better. You have a system. You’re in the midst of a process of taking a mess and making it better, making it the best it can be.

I have found this same process to be true of my walk with God. He saved me when I was still just a mess (Romans 5:8). And now, as I walk with Him, he is organizing me – and what a process it is. I have no doubt that outsiders look at me and think, “That girl has to get her life together! Not even using her degree, unmarried, seemingly going nowhere!”. And to be honest, when I look at my own life, it often feels like a bit of a mess, as well. I have not ended up where I thought I would, and I have no idea what lies ahead.

But what I do know, is that God is in the process of “organizing” me. I might think everything looks like a mess, but God has a system – a methodical plan with a glorious end result. And step by step, I am being organized into a more beautiful version of who He has created me to be. 

“We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.” – Romans 5:3-4