“YET…I will rejoice in the LORD”

I feel like a severely neglected and disarrayed cupboard: all out of order. A jumble: precious treasures, broken pieces and a large amount of trash: all closeted together: unused or unusable.

I am a tangle of threads: hopelessly crossed and knotted and wadded together: once beautiful, single strands of color; now mashed together, ugly and distressed and inharmonious in their tightly bound confusion.

“YET…I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.” (Hab. 3:18)
That is to say, I will look away from myself. I don’t have to “fix” my tangles or “lay in order” the confused threads of my life before I come to God.

I come to Him twisted, tangled and disordered. He is my Creator: He is able to speak order into my chaos. He can, and He will.

“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” (John 14:27)