Day: 12 January 2020

Discussion Starter #12

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Two Ears One Mouth

Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. James 1:19

I remember when I first came to recovery my sponsor said to me ‘take the cotton wool out of your ears and put it in your mouth.”

The best advice I ever received. None of us ended up here, in recovery because we wanted to. None of us got up one day and said, “it’s a nice day, the sun is shining I think I will go into recovery.” We ended up in recovery because God knew it is where we need to be.

My advice to everyone reading this today is to listen to those who have been here longer than you. They know more because they have traveled the road longer and have more experience.

  • How did you arrive in recovery?
  • Are you willing to learn from others?

LISTENING HELPS YOU MATURE
These are the wise sayings of Solomon, David’s son, Israel’s king– Written down so we’ll know how to live well and right, to understand what life means and where it’s going; A manual for living, for learning what’s right and just and fair; To teach the inexperienced the ropes and give our young people a grasp on reality. Proverbs 1:1-4

THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK
Watch your words and hold your tongue; you’ll save yourself a lot of grief. Proverbs 21:23

STOP FOLLOWING THE CROWD
I insist–and God backs me up on this–that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd. They’ve refused for so long to deal with God that they’ve lost touch not only with God but with reality itself. Ephesians 4:17-18

Prayer: Lord open my ears and my mind. Teach me to listen to and advice and apply it?

What The Bible Says

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Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand–shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven. Matthew 5:16

#Stand #Shine #Open

Morning Harmony #12

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Childish Adulthood

Luke 18:17 Mark this: “Unless you accept God’s kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you’ll never get in.”

There have been many occasions in the past where we have been ‘childish’ but not ‘child-like’ Childish in stubbornness, foolishness, and destructiveness. Often under the influence of alcohol or another drug or, craving for them. When we look back, we can see much of our behavior and thinking was anything but ‘adult’ Our cations were often the opposite of what comes to mind when we think of a “little child’ Sobriety was our first step in growing up.

Sobriety requires keeping a childlike attitude of simplicity, trust and learning. The Bible says “God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love–like Christ in everything.” Ephesians 4:15 No one ever reaches full maturity this side of heaven. We are not to be childish but child-like in discovering the reality of God’s promises in our lives.

Although I am an adult and try to behave grown up. When it comes to my faith I want to be child-like. To accept God as my heavenly Father who loves and cares for me. It is only in learning to trust Him I learn to trust myself and others. It is really something to be a CHILD OF GOD.

#Maturity #Love #Power


SPIRITUAL MATURITY IS FOUND IN GOD
Like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God. 1 Peter 2:2

WATCH AND LEARN
Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that. Ephesians 5:1-2

LISTEN AND OBEY
God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. Hebrews 4:12

Prayer: I pray that I may have faith as a little child and God’s kingdom will come into my life.

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