Letting God in When Life Falls ApartSample

Letting God In: Chaos Doesn’t Scare Him

Chaos takes many forms. It can be loud and obvious, like addiction, a diagnosis, or a sudden loss. Other times, it’s quiet like the swirl of anxiety in your chest, the noise in your mind that never shuts off, or the pressure to hold everything together when you’re barely hanging on.

I remember speaking with a woman whose life felt like one long emergency. She described her days as survival mode on repeat. Yet, as we sat together, she said something that stuck with me: “The peace didn’t come when life calmed down. It came when I stopped trying to do it all on my own.”

We often assume God waits for the storm to pass before He draws near. The truth is, He meets us in the storm. Jesus didn’t wait for calm seas to show His power—He spoke peace into the waves. The chaos doesn’t scare Him. It never has.

Letting God into your chaos doesn’t mean the storm disappears overnight. It means you stop facing it alone. It means you stop pretending to be the anchor and let Him be who He already is, your refuge, your peace, your steady hand when everything else is spinning.

Maybe today, your life feels like it’s in pieces, flying in every direction. Breathe. He’s already there. Let Him sit with you in the middle of the mess and speak peace over it.

Reflection:

• Where do you feel the most overwhelmed or out of control right now?
• Are you trying to manage your chaos without inviting God in?
• What would it look like to let go and trust Him in the middle of it?

Prayer:
Lord, my life feels noisy, scattered, and out of control. I’ve tried to fix it, organize it, and quiet it, but I still feel the weight. Today, I lay down the pressure to hold it all together. Speak peace over the chaos, Jesus. Remind me that You are not overwhelmed by what overwhelms me. Amen.