Meditations on "Surrender"

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.

Our lives are unmanageable, our problems are too great, our issues are too confusing, and our emotional challenges are too overwhelming, unless God helps and defends us against our enemy.

Our choice when we feel down is either to believe and act on the promises God has made us, or to believe the lie the evil one is telling us.

We were born again from above into the family of God and given the will and desire to live a life of moral excellence.

Life on God’s terms is the way of living we say we want when we come into recovery but we often stray from God’s way. To set things right, we start at the beginning and admit and repent of all our wrongdoing before God.

Everyday life in recovery will bring challenges where we need God’s guidance to live wisely.

How often have we found ourselves in conversation with someone and a remark is made that “pushes our button?” When something like this happens, we need to consider the cause. We are clearly not at peace with something inside us and whatever that is, it needs to be brought to the light so that we can be healed.