We must give up our selfish ways to allow God to heal us and empower us to be the people He is calling us to be. We must believe in and accept His grace. His free gist of forgiveness offered through faith in Jesus Christ and Hi ability to teach us to live lives He approves of.
We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
John 16:21-22 “When a woman gives birth, she has a hard time, there’s no getting around it. But when the baby is born, there is joy in the birth. This new life in the world wipes out the memory of the pain. The sadness you have right now is similar to that pain, but the coming joy is also similar.”
There is no pain we have that Jesus cannot heal. Starting out in recovery in 1987 was difficult for me. I had burned every relationship and every support network in my life by putting my addictions and compulsions before everything else. I felt the pain of the consequences of my bad thoughts, actions, and behaviors. I knew what it was like to be all alone.
Somewhere deep within my soul, I knew I needed help outside of myself. Not Human help but God’s help and I found the courage to honestly face the truth about my life and I must admit facing the reality of who I was and what I had done led me to relapse. But in the midst of my relapse, God spoke to me and because I responded to His calling I am here today living a life I never dreamed of or expected. I could not do this on my own! I needed Jesus Christ. My One True Higher Power. Because of Him I no longer the pain of my previous life and for that I am Thankful
It has been a while since I posted on this blog. But tonight God prompted me to log on. Going forward I want to share my experience, strength, and hope here to encourage others who are not as far down the ‘Recovery Road’ as I am and to share the love that God has shared with me since my journey began.
God gives us all we need, daily, to help us overcome the mess and heal us. We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. 2 Corinthians 4:8
The Spirit of God, the Master, is on me because God anointed me. He sent me to preach good news to the poor, heal the heartbroken, Announce freedom to all captives, pardon all prisoners.
Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything–and I do mean everything–connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life–a God-fashioned life.
When you come looking for God, you’ll find Him. When you get serious about finding Him and want it more than anything else, He’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed. He’ll turn things around for you. He’ll bring you out of exile. You can count on it.