The Predictable God

While the earth remains, seed-time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. ­– God  

 There are some things I can guess about your day without you giving me a hint. First, you woke up this morning. You got ready for work. The sun gradually rose in the horizon and by noon it was right overhead. Four hours later, as you prepared to leave for home, the sun had moved to the west and seemed to be cooling off.

Now you may go, “Is this a joke? What is so ingenious about stating the obvious way a day will go?” and to that I say, “Of course there is nothing ingenious about it.” In fact the only reason I can (as every other person can) predict the trend of a day is because of the predictability of God. God set nature in a way that you can observe and correctly predict. Imagine, for a moment, if your alarm woke you up by 6 am and by 11 am the sun isn't up. Imagine if seasons were completely unpredictable and you wake up each morning to a different weather. Chaotic! I hear your heart say and in addition to that I say that the world can’t work that way.

As it is with our predictable God so it should be with our lives. If things would work in your life, and if you would make steady progress in your success journey, you need some degree of predictability in your daily activities. You should be able to operate with a pattern of vision, goal setting, planning, to-do lists, and prioritization. “Just maintain the proper order in all things,” was an advice Paul, the apostle, once gave.

It is interesting to note that progress is always the signature of orderliness. A simple glance at societies that take order and patterns seriously shows this and a glance at societies that give room for chaos provides ample evidence of stagnancy.