Think of life like an air conditioner, as both in erroneous understanding of thermodynamics violate the 2nd law. Both cause local organization: a air-conditioner cools things reducing randomness and entropy and a cells organizes molecules, but require energy, that energy was released by making disorder out of order somewhere else, the air-conditioner requires electricity from a generator, the generator turned fuel into gas, entropy goes up. The cell takes energy from food, food is metabolized into simpler molecules, entropy goes up. Even though both have reduced entropy in the local system, globally entropy had to go up for them to do this.