Meditations on ""

Jealousy is a negative and damaging emotion. God’s invitation to us today is to leave jealousy and selfishness behind and focus on kindness, patience, acceptance, and the honouring of others.

Everyday life brings challenges where we need God’s guidance to live wisely. We need help to make big and small decisions. God offers to live within us and guide us on a safe path. 

We are living co-dependently when we look to those around us to affirm our value. God’s plan for us to have secure and satisfying relationships begins with us discovering the person God says we are – nothing more and nothing less.

Life in recovery is a journey of recognizing the self-centered ways we have lived, and then seeking God and mentors to teach us how to live considerately and kindly towards others.

We need to find the courage to change – the courage to see life, even our life, as God sees it.

Love is not boastful or proud. Love is humble and selfless.

Our life with God in recovery should be one of continual learning and growing.   When our actions or attitudes conflict with God’s principles we need to realign our ways with what God’s Word says, and we need to do it sooner rather than later. 

God has given gifts to everyone; no one has been left out.  The first step in developing confidence in using our gifts is to acknowledge that God is our creator and each one of us is individually gifted with the qualities God desires us to use.

Wise people are willling to listen to sound advice and learn. We can learn from their experience, strength, and hope because they have gained wisdom by listening to others and by following the principles for a successful life as recorded in the Bible.

In certain situations, when our behaviour is challenged, we are quick to try to justify ourselves because we are unwilling to see the exact nature of our wrongs. Self-justification is rooted in the thinking that we are better human beings than we truly are. It’s time to admit that wrong is wrong, and that we are guilty of wrong thinking and wrong doing.

My life is of great beauty and infinite value. Do I really believe this? What does God have to say about it all on my good days and bad days?

How can a person become complete in God, lacking nothing?