From Confusion to Advantage
In business as well as in life, this is God’s specialty
Confusion here on planet Earth is leaking out all over the place. No matter the cause of your confusion, its impact is always personal. It only becomes confusion after it kicks down the door and barges in. Left outside, it doesn’t stir our hearts. In a real sense, we’re our very own barista and brew that bitter beverage known as confusion.
But the overwhelming good news from God is that there is a way He changes confusion into an advantage.
Confusion’s Plan
God is never confused. What we think of as confusion is part of His plan. Under His control (see Habakkuk 2:3).
His vision for the future is the safest, sure-fire investment plan in the universe. But He’s more than just a cold, impersonal checklist. God will personally use confusion in the lives of people and nations. The confusion that we live through daily is in His hand. Through our confusion, we have a part to play. Things to do. Words to say. People to be.
Confusion’s Purpose
God just loves to use confusion for His purposes. We may not know it in this life, but that doesn’t stop our great God.
The best time for people to see the Lord is when they know and see our confusion. Our pain. Our weakness. But there’s more. God wants the world to know that He is the Lord. He’s God and we aren’t.
Confusion’s Profit
If you’re looking for a life full of confusion, look at the Apostle Paul. He received a thorn in the flesh from a messenger of Satan to torment him (See 2 Corinthians 12:7,8). Three times he went to God, begging for the thorn to be removed. God’s loving and compassionate answer was that the confusion of his life, the pain of his thorn, was going to pay big dividends.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is perfected in weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9 CSB)
Yes, there are moments in this life where things do turn out great. But there is absolutely no guarantee that our lives here in this sin-broken world are going to be filled with nothing but good times and happiness where we float from one ecstasy to another. Job knew these truths about confusion.
Even though He kills me, I’ll continue to hope in Him. (Job 13:15 ISV)
When we release our rights about confusion, we can look beyond this life. We can “fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith” (see Hebrews 12:2). We won’t just keep pace with life, struggling to keep our heads above water, but we’ll live with strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.
