Perfect order is certainly an attribute of God. In fact God’s perfect, absolute standard of righteous order constitutes an immeasurable beauty and power.
Order is present everywhere in the creation, in things tangible and intangible. Consider the symmetry of petals on a daisy, leaves on a fern, or even kernels on a corn cob. Everywhere we look we find nature full of spheres, cones, equiangular spirals, and all sorts of polyhedra geometric shapes all nicely ordered and described by straightforward mathematics. Such ordered arrangement has a sublime and intricate beauty. The creation is a beautifully arranged symphony of many intricate and elegant instruments.
Quality Control for businesses can be defined as the perfecting of order and beauty in the production of goods and services. Businesses worldwide are today heavily involved in one form or another of improving quality. What started out as Statistical Quality Control (SQC) has given way to Total Quality Management (TQM). TQM includes both the idea of continuous improvement through incremental changes as well as radical innovation or “reengineering” an organization. It means satisfying with quality all of an organization’s stakeholders, i.e., shareholders, customers, management, and nonmanagement employees.
Total Quality implies perfect quality, and thus perfect order to the production of goods and services. Good quality assurance programs try to expose every flaw and require 100% repair of the flaws detected. The standard, the point of reference, is absolute. Performance must be based on absolute order. To evaluate anything accurately you must have a standard.
But not only is there scientific and mathematical order in the universe, along with artistic order, and a “way of doing things in business” order, there is also moral and ethical order a moral and ethical order which is the absolute standard. Just as with scientific law, understanding moral law enables a person to benefit by using the principles, and avoiding ill consequences. Thousands of years of history show that when societies honor a strong code of ethics similar to the Ten Commandments, they tend to prosper. When they do not, they decline or never achieve greatness. Moral and ethical order provides stability and power.
Principles of order and righteousness govern the creation. Some Personality of ordered beauty established this order to begin with in craftsmanship, science, and morality. The order and beauty point to a holy and powerful God, the God of the Bible. “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His glory” (Isaiah 6:3). It is this Holy Order which has ultimate everlasting power.
And the fact is that we are all disordered, corrupted: we are sinners. We, therefore, cannot be maintained in an incorruptible, eternal body and world (creation), but instead must be subject to decay (death). The prophet Isaiah said it this way, “Woe is me, for I am undone! Because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips” (Isaiah 6:5).
You do not have to sink deep into a mud puddle to get muddy. Since all of us are born in the midst of a mud puddle, all of us are muddy all of us are stained. The simple fact is that our stains must be washed clean. As the Bible says, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him” (Rom 5:8,9).
– Mark Cadwallader, Board Chairman of Creation Moments
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