HOUSE OF ROBERTS BLOG

So when I used to consider whether or not “routines and order” were a personality trait I would say “to each their own”. There was a time I would say that routine was more of a preference rather than a necessity but NOW ---Get ready for this…I would say it is BIBLICAL. Routines, disciplines, intentional processes, and order is littered all throughout the Word. When God was building anything, He had intention and details in place. Think of creation, God had an order and intention to which He unfolded creation. He built the environment before He brought life into it. In most cases, before He built something in the earth He downloaded his plan. Think about the plan and the details at play when He had Noah build the Ark. Think about the plan and the details at play when he had Solomon build the temple. Think about the plan and details at play when he led Elijah to the brook. How about when He lead Moses and the Israelites out of Egypt and into the wilderness? See God is not winging it EVER, He knows exactly what He wants to do and exactly how He wants to have it articulated. He is a God of order and intentionality. He is a God of forethought and is in the details. I believe He models this for us time and time again in the word, not so that we just look at Him and say “Wow look at what a brilliant intentional planner our God is!” and of course He is, but I believe He models this for us so that we to take His lead and follow in His intentional footsteps with all we are building out in the earth with Him. I believe He knows that ORDER and INTENTIONAL living bring peace and stability to the scene of what you are building. I believe the disciplines we create in our days display a stewardship and honor of our time. I believe He wanted to show that if that was HIS NATURE it could be ours too because His spirit lives in us.

I feel this is the moment to confess to all of you that I am a recovering addict of “disorderly living”. HA! I make it a joke but truly it wasn’t in my nature to be organized and overly intentional. I am a BIG THINKER and a VISIONARY and I had the habit of not wanting to get too caught up in the details of “HOW” in life. I really do believe that this is how the Lord gifted me to flow and operate. That being said I think it’s easy to make this an excuse for not having to live intentionally and thoughtfully in life and Lord knows I did this.

Now in this moment, I want to say thank you to the kind Holy Spirit and thank you to my brilliant husband! Both of which helped call me out, up, and crafted in me a better more “superhero” version of me!

The Holy Spirit began to craft disciplines in my life such as:

- Having me give my first words and love to Him before leaving my bed in the morning

- Having me make my bed first thing because this would be an easy, quick powerful task that would propel into other ones.

- Telling me to get ready for the day because this would make me feel good and confident.

- Coaching me to give decisions time—If it was Him it would only get stronger in me not diminish in time.

- Reminding me that I could be a planner because He was a planner and He would show me how.

- And so so SO many more things…

Michael strengthened me in this area by:

- Asking questions like “How, When, Where, How much?” At one point this did make me mad but The Lord spoke to my heart and reminded me that Michael was my “help mate” and he would make me better if I allowed it. Michael and I had honest dialogues about when and how he should bring his questions up and we wrestled out a new beautiful process that helped make us both better.

- Michael is gifted in organization. His mind naturally thinks that way, when I was able to see, appreciate, and not be intimidated by this gift it was easy to submit under it so that I could learn from him.

- His habit is execution—Michael doesn’t start anything He won’t finish. For a dreamer, this is our downfall. I began to deeply dislike this trait in me. It made me want to copy the behaviors and patterns of the Lord and what Michael modeled for me.

It’s incredible to think that I feel like I am both a dreamer and executor now! I believe both are in the nature of God and I believe that we do have our natural leans but that is not to say we can’t build, grow, and develop the weaker nature. The weaker one is the space where we need the Lord's strength, wisdom, help, grace, discernment, correction, etc..

I want to challenge all of us in the area of “Order”. I believe God works and moves through order and He has an opinion on your current order. This week Invite him in to speak to it, to challenge it, to encourage it, to change it up, or order it up from scratch. Praying for you all this week.