Meditations on "Surrender"

If we find it hard to love those around us, let’s ask God to fill us with His love and goodness, so we can love others as He loves us.

Real change happens for us when we don’t just get to know God’s will but actually put it into practice.

When stressful situations come our way, the best way forward is to make a conscious effort to turn to God and seek His help.

It’s time to confess that we cannot do life on our own and seek God to help us change our ways.

Like the first followers of Jesus, we also need to take time to meditate on what He is saying, ask questions, and attentively listen for explanations

Our God is a God of order and when we live in the structure and order He has planned, things go well for us.

To be effective in our new life in recovery, we need to choose to follow God’s ways. We need to find new sources of interest and a new set of skills to help us stay clean and sober.

One of our first priorities in recovery is sorting our life practices according to the truth.

Living according to the wisdom of God has more benefits than we would ever have space to list.

When we give our will and life over to the care of God our sins are forgiven, and we are guaranteed life forevermore with our Heavenly Father. What we need to develop is, knowledge of the wonderful plan God has for our lives, and understanding of how we are to put that plan into action.

Our focus on day-to-day living has to be God’s agenda and giving Him opportunity to work that out in our lives.

In order to move from a lifestyle of surviving to one of thriving we must empty ourselves of all that keeps us from living totally dependent on God.