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07.15.09

Ending Chaos

There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none who understands; there
is none who seeks after God. They have all turned aside; they have together
become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one. Their throat
is an open tomb; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison
of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Their feet are swift to shed blood; destruction and misery are in their
ways; and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God
before their eyes. - Romans 3:10-17.

Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil. For
they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. But the
path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the
perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what
makes them stumble. - Proverbs 3:14; 17-19.

Why did a 54-year-old French woman drive 12 miles (18 km) up the wrong side
of a French highway? No one knows but she was arrested and placed in a
psychiatric hospital. Really, it was a wondrous miracle that the woman was
not killed in her wrong way drive! There were, however, seven accidents
involving 18 vehicles as they tried to avoid the woman. Two people were
injured slightly in the chaos created between the cities of Toulouse and
Bordeaux, and it is even more of a miracle that no one was killed or
severely injured in the chaos created by the wrong way drive.

There are many whose lives resemble the wrong way drive of the 54-year-old
woman made in France. Is your life like a car being driven the wrong way up
a major highway? If so many of the accidents and much of the chaos in the
lives of everything around you may very well be the result of your wrong way
life. You may realize that things are not quite right in your life but that's
the way it has always been, and so you think it can never change. Solomon
writes in the book of Proverbs, "The way of the wicked is like darkness;
they do not know what makes them stumble." The apostle Paul writes in the
New Testament, ".destruction and misery are in their ways; and the way of
peace they have not known."

You do not have to live your life in the darkness, in destruction and
misery. You do not have to live your life continually stumbling. You do not
have to live your life causing chaos for all those around you. You do not
have to live your life in frustration and depression because you can come
out of the darkness! Solomon also writes, "But the path of the just is like
the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day."

We can become "just" not through any good works that we may do but through
Jesus. We are told in Romans 5:1, ".having been justified by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." When we receive Christ as our
Savior and focus our lives upon Him, we will come to an end of chaos in our
lives. Romans 8:5-6 makes this clear, "For those who live according to the
flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live
according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded
is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

Even further direction is given by the apostle Paul about how you can put an
end to chaos in your life in Romans 13:12-14, "The night is far spent, the
day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us
put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in
revelry and drunkenness, not lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But
put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to
fulfill its lusts."

Let us "put on the Lord Jesus Christ" and then our path will be "like the
shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day."

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