We've all experienced chaos, haven’t we? Messy circumstances that tangle up our lives and our thoughts. Things happen and we get confused, our minds just start going to all kinds of places. I know there’s a lot of chaos in our lives, but I don’t know if we've all experienced God's love in the middle of that chaos. 

Often times, we wish that by inviting God into our mess that He would just get His “magic wand”,  wave it, and fix everything for us. 

We wish God would change our circumstances or our ways of thinking. 

We wish for Him to just take away the desires we have, take away the fears we’re facing. We think, “God, if You really wanted me to believe this, You’d just change it, and fix it for me.” I know we would all like that, but God doesn't work like that. In fact, God doesn't have a magic wand, but He does have something much more powerful, much more intimate and much more kind - His love. His unconditional love. 

The writer of 1 John says, “We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” 1 John 4:16 (NASB) 

First we come to know God’s love, then we believe the love that God has for us. 

When we’re facing fear we may think, “What does love have to do with it?” If we have both love and fear, how do we connect them? Well, in reality, all of our chaos, anger, frustration, hurt and pain, are really just on the surface of deep fears that lay underneath. Most of our hurt and anger really comes from a place of fear.

We're afraid we're not lovable, we’re afraid we're not acceptable, or we're afraid we're going to be rejected. We're afraid of so much and God doesn't want that for us. He wants us to experience love in the middle of all our fears. He wants us to invite Him into it. As a matter of fact, many verses in scripture tell us, 

• Fear not, for behold I will… 

• Fear not, for I am with you. 

• Fear not, I am your comfort. 

• Fear not, I am your strength. 

• Fear not, I will never leave you or forsake you.

Scripture tells us that His perfect love casts out our fears, and He invites us into that. A lot of these verses are so powerful, but my favorite is found in 2 Timothy. 

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”

2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)

My friend, it is so important to remember that fear is not from God. His love is powerful, and His resurrection power takes you from fear into His love and acceptance. God will give you a sound mind. In the midst of your chaos, your thoughts can get so crazy. Chaos can steal your sound mind thinking. When you get in that panic mode, God says, “Hey, I'm in this with you. Relax, I've got this!” When you start receiving His love, and begin having more clarity of thought you will be able to hear His direction and wisdom. He invites you into that, and He just can't wait to join you in the middle of your chaos with His perfect love. 

I hope you are experiencing His perfect love in the middle of your chaos today.