I decided to rearrange my bedroom yesterday. This was not an easy feat. Before I began rearranging my room I knew in my mind exactly where I wanted everything to go. For two hours though it was like my bedroom was a jigsaw puzzle. In order to move my bed where I wanted it, I first had to put my bed in the hallway, take the drawers out of my dresser so that I could move it and then move my dresser to the middle of my room, take the books off my bookshelves and then move my bookshelves. If someone would have come into my room during this transformation they would have thought that I did not know what I was doing, because nothing was in place.
I give this illustration because as I was moving my bedroom I thought of life. Sometimes where we are in life makes absolutely no sense. In our natural eyes everything looks messed up. We don’t understand why certain things are happening; we don’t understand why we are at a certain place in our life. It is like when I was in the midst of rearranging my room, we look around and rather than seeing order, everything seems chaotic and out of order. We can only see what is in front of us, and what is in front of us does not make sense. But we forget that the author of our life knows exactly what He is doing. Just like when I was rearranging my room, to the outside observer, it appeared as though I did not know what I was doing. But I knew exactly where I wanted everything to be in my room, and I recognized that in order to get the furniture where I wanted it, for awhile my room was going to look chaotic, but this disorder was needed.
As I was moving my bedroom I thought of God and the plan He has for our life. I believe that God has this purpose and this plan for our life, but in order for His will to be fulfilled He sometimes has to move ‘beds into the hallways, and dressers into the middle of the room, and books on the floor’ in order to get everything in order. I heard someone say once that in order to get from point A to point B, God at times takes us to point C, D and F first and then to point B. In other words, it appears that our life is chaotic and nothing is making sense, but God knows exactly what He is doing. To our natural eyes, our life might not make sense, but to God, He knows He has to move things around in order to fulfill His will in our life. Sometimes the picture does not become clear for awhile. It took me two hours to move my bedroom around. For two hours, my bedroom looked like a disaster, but after it was all done, it looked exactly how I pictured it in my mind. In life, we might not understand why we are at a certain place in our life, or why things are happening, and we might not understand things for awhile. It might be ‘2 hours,’ so to speak, before things begin to make sense. But if we don’t give up and if we persevere, the picture will become clear.
I got clarity concerning my own life while rearranging my room. I am thankful because, to me, my life might seem chaotic at times, and I might have ‘beds in the hallway, and dressers in the middle of my room’ and the picture might not be clear, but I have confidence because God knows what He is doing. I encourage you to take comfort in that. I don’t know where you find yourself right now. I don’t know if things don’t make sense, but know that to God it all makes sense.