More Than Crumbs

We were once in the same place (Eph. 2). According to the unsearchable riches of God's sovereign grace we have received blessings which are something more than crumbs falling from the table, even "all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ": infinitely higher and richer than even the meat on the table. Has God's principle of order been set aside or relaxed, on account of those immeasurably higher places and blessings which His grace has assigned to us? Far from it! On the contrary, the highness of our vocation and place, and the nearness of our heavenly relationship are the very reasons why that great principle or order insisted upon and should be observed by us all the more. May it be so in our houses, or in the Church which is the house of the living God.
If a good and great king demands order to rule throughout the realms and unto the uttermost borders of his kingdom, he will certainly and most particularly insist on order in his family, and at his court. Do you think that the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom every family in heaven and earth is named, in His heavenly courts above and in His Church, could tolerate that which would be inconsistent with His holiness and derogatory to His majesty? Was His great apostle of the Gentiles and of the Church indifferent to the confusion and disorder in the church at Corinth? He told them that God is not a God of confusion but of peace, and of that order without which there can be no true peace.