Last week we exposed the truth regarding perfection and wanting order that is not a "disorder" because our Heavenly Father is a God of perfect order.
This week I want to continue exploring the truth that perfection and wanting order in our lives is not a disorder but in fact, it's a lie, an oxymoron that contradicts Truth and His Word.
Thank heaven that our Father is a God of perfect order because—if He were not—the entire universe would spin out of control. The sun wouldn’t rise in the east every morning at the precise time it does, nor set in the west each evening. Our bodies, which were perfectly set up with sleep cycles for us to function, hormonal cycles to produce children and then stop when we’re past childbearing age would mean us living in chaos. Our eyes, nose and mouth; our limbs and fingers are each perfectly set on our bodies as we were formed—perfectly and in order.
What would happen if God were not a God of order and perfection? When we were “formed in secret in our mother’s womb” would we want our eyes, nose and mouth; our limbs and fingers not in the exact perfect order?!?! Of course not!
In A Wise Woman “Your Mother’s Teachings” I said, “God is a God of order. God has a consistent routine. The sun comes up in the east and goes down in the west at the same time every day!” Another way God is a God of perfection is explained in 1 Corinthians 14:33 (NIV) when it says, “For God is not a God of disorder but of peace...”
“Disorder?!?!” Do you see how what we are exhibiting, by wanting perfection and order, is the complete opposite of a “disorder”? When we set things up or want our days to run smoothly, we are not “anal” or “suffering” from OCD. It’s rubbish! It’s a lie that needs to be put out with the trash each and every time that this lie (and dozens like them) show up in a thought or you say it or you inadvertently agree with it. “...because God does not want us to be in disorder but in harmony and peace. As in all the churches of God's people…” 1 Corinthians 14:33 (GNT). And when it says churches it’s not the church building, it’s us, His brides!
Let me conclude with a short story of how to encourage yourself and others with the truth. A few months ago I overheard a man who was carefully doing something “perfectly” then said, “Oh, sorry! I know that’s anal of me!” I stopped him and said, “Why is that a ‘filthy’ thing to do? Why should you or I be labeled or be thought of as having a ‘disorder’ when we are putting things in order! It makes no sense. It’s a good God-given trait and you should embrace it and never apologize for it.” The man was stunned but immediately got it—then said (rather loudly) “That’s RIGHT! It’s not disgusting or bad to want to do things perfectly! Thank you SO MUCH for setting me straight!”
Dear bride, the truth shall set you free. You don’t need to accept any label—especially when it’s a trait of our Heavenly Father. We were perfectly and wonderfully made—being perfected and living in perfect order and in harmony as His bride.
Oh, but what if you don’t have this trait and instead are a bit messy? Let’s discuss this in next week’s living lesson, Week 51 “Who You Resemble.”
UPDATE: Like any GIFT 
or personality trait the enemy can and does thrive on pushing us off the narrow pathway to the ditch of extremes—losing our “balance” as we “LEAN to our own understanding.” Thankfully through the humility of one bride, a new HHM lesson and powerful thread of truth is available https://encouragingwomen.org/tag/perfect/
Read PRAISE 
that Encouraging Women post on our Encourager
about having a Heavenly Father #HF.
Unleashing the TRUTH
It’s from being with Him we are perfect, not a means of being accepted by Him.
I love this, so much. I struggle with feelings of failure if my day isn’t “perfect” and this brings comfort.
“…because God does not want us to be in disorder but in harmony and peace. As in all the churches of God’s people…” 1 Corinthians 14:33 (GNT).
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2014%3A33&version=NIV,NASB,GNT
It is so freeing to know that we were created for a reason and that our Beloved gave us special traits for our mission here! I love order but I am not a detailed oriented person, for me having everything perfect raises my cortisol level. You see, My Beloved showed that because He is the Only One who is perfect and can give me order, He is the One I should go to for everything. When I cook, clean, teach, and even when I study His word.
I need to organize my life around His principles and Let Him be the perfect Potter of my life.
Even when I mess up, everything I do has a purpose in Him. Now I choose to accept my imperfections and live by His Order, not mine.
I am rebuking the enemy’s lies about me and accepting that things get messy and that is ok because He is my order forever.
My sweet bride His loving mercies are new to us every day. Just ask Him for what He designed you to be! If you struggle with order take heart He is the perfect teacher and will guide you to His perfect truth, if you are struggling to be super organized, let go and trust in Him. Our ways are not His, His order is not ours, but His love is surrounding us always. He will never let us go.
“For we dare not make ourselves numbered or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. But they, when they measure themselves and compare themselves with themselves, lack understanding. But we will not boast beyond measure, but within the measure of the sphere God has marked out for us, that we may reach you also.” 2 Corinthians 10:12-13.
I am grateful to my Husband who removes all labels of self-judgment and criticism—from others—to reveal to us the truth of His will for us. I am personally grateful to have been blessed with the desire for order and perfection in my life. This is a beautiful gift, and just as some are labeled with OCD to annoy others, the enemy takes us to the extreme of “perfectionism” to wear us down, which was my case. But in my journey, I have learned from my Heavenly Father that before anything else, He wants a perfect heart, and to trust Him for everything else, to surrender my schedule and every activity I do into His hands giving the best of my heart to HIM, because even when I clean my house I do it in service to my Heavenly Husband, so that is what HE wants from me.
For a long time I compared myself to other people. But I understood that we are all different and have different gifts. That extreme desire for perfection pushes you to compare yourself and compete internally with others to be better than them in whatever it is (which is born of pride), and that is frustrating, we do not have the grace to be better than others if our desire is to boast about it, that is why we get frustrated because it is NOT His purpose for us to compete and compare ourselves with others, but rather for us to do everything with humility within the Lord’s measure of perfection. Now that is my limit and my measuring tape, no more comparisons with other people, only His measuring tape is what matters to me, because I live for Him and for Him and everything I do I want to glorify Him and give worship to my Beloved. Now I am free from comparisons and exhausting perfectionism, to enjoy admiring my Heavenly Husband and delight in Him cleansing my heart so that I become more and more perfect with Him, being ever closer to Him, living as His Bride.