Mara

Gengwall,
There are all sorts of orders and structures.
Our universe is well ordered.
My son and I have been watching History Channel’s “The Universe” and all I can think is how privileged and taken care of we are by the order and structure God has put into place. Have you ever studied our electromagnetic field. Nothing short of Divine planning and structure.

In my psyc class we learned that one of our survival skills is to see patterns and structure and order and to learn from our mistakes.
But the problem with being so good at seeking order and structure is that we see it where it doesn’t exist. And we become superstitious and ‘witches’ have been burnt at the stake because there seemed to be a certain order or structure at how a plague or sickness struck a village.

It is human nature to see and even seek order.

The problem is when God says His ways (even order and structure?) are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55:9) we still insist that He thinks and structures things the way we do (Psalm 50:21) and find patterns in scripture to support our carnal patterns.

Yet, Jesus, in His own words, written in red in the gospels, set up an order and structure that certain men conveniently sweep under the rug because they like the patterns and structures they can piece together using certain verses from Paul.

I know you are not one of those men and I’m not scolding you at all. I’m just reiterating what I’ve said above while acknowledging the goodness of structures, orders, and patterns in general.

God’s order and structures are higher than those of men. Yet misguided men work feverishly to superimpose their carnal understanding of order on the Divine.