By Grace Sweeney
Organization:
A manner of accomplishing something in an orderly or efficient way.
(Wordnik)
You’re probably very familiar with the concept of organization. It’s something our parents try to teach us from the time we’re little. Organizing things and staying tidy is important for toy shelves—and also for the rest of life.
The Lord God is a god of order and neatness. Just look around at creation and you’ll see it. The stars, placed in their constellations and patterns. The sun rises every day and then sets. The earth’s plants and animals all work together in an organized cycle.
Being organized keeps us from being confused. When things are a mess, it’s hard to stay focused and happy. It also gives us peace. Even if we don’t realize it, mess make us stress and adds another weight to our minds. Staying clean, tidy, and organized is important for our mental and emotional health, not just the bookshelves.
But while staying organized with our possessions is important, there’s an even more important aspect of organization… organizing our lives. Namely, organizing our priorities.
Organizing Our Lives Spiritually
This is the most important area to make sure our lives are well-organized in. The Bible has outlined principles for putting our spiritual lives in order. (I would especially recommend reading the Gospels, James, and Proverbs for this.)
It’s important to make sure God is first in our lives. Proper order means putting our relationship with Him first and walking in His ways, rather than going our own way. Reading the Bible consistently will help us make sure we are ordering our lives correctly in this area.
It’s important to make sure our spiritual lives are right, because that will have an eternal impact on us. Organizing our physical things and current life is important, but making sure our spiritual lives are in order is even more important. “ Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.” (Mark 13:31)
Organizing Our Day-To-Day Life
Ordering our day-to-day life, schedules, and priorities is the next most important thing when talking about organization. We need to make sure everything has a correct place in our lives, from God, who should be highest priority, our family, friends, to-do lists, school, hobbies, work, and anything else.
Organizing things in real life can take a bit of trial and error. The biggest thing I can advise you to do is make sure the most important things are in their proper place, and experiment with how the rest of it falls.
God needs to have first place in our lives, and family and friends should be next. Taking good care of yourself should also fall somewhere around there. Besides that, it’s up to you (and your parents) how the rest of it should fall.
Remember to talk to your parents throughout the process of trying to organize this. They should be a huge part of your life, period. They’ve lived a lot longer than us and have a lot of wisdom, even if we’d rather not listen to it sometimes (yes, I’m sure we’re all guilty of that at some point).
Organizing daily life is very important in making sure we have a happy, consistent, balanced lifestyle, both now and in our later years.
Organizing Our Possessions
At last we get to the thing we think of first when we say the word “organizing.” Organizing our things. Contradictorily, I consider this to be least important in the greater scheme of things.
This consists of everything from desks to bookshelves to under the bed to bathroom drawers. Keeping spaces neat and tidy will help us stay consistent and organized in other areas of our life.
For example, keeping our Bible in the same space on our nightstand will help us stay consistent in reading our Bible. Keeping our desk tidy will help us keep up with schoolwork so we can be balanced in that and other areas of daily life. Ann has a great post on ways to organize things that will come out next week- so keep your eyes open for that!
As we’ve seen through each of these areas that need organizing, it’s a gift. An amazing gift. It helps us with everything and if we master it now while we’re young, will help us for the rest of our life.
God is an organized God, as I said at the beginning. He set the stars in the heavens in specific patterns and places, and we need to emulate Him by setting our lives and possessions in order too.
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