Meditations on "Surrender"

Step One: We admitted that we were powerless over our dependencies, that our lives had become unmanageable.

Search for the word “time” or “right time” in the Bible and you’ll come up with instructions about speaking, working, blessing, and even worship.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the potter’s house, and there I will give you my message.

We're looking at a beautiful story about a potter making a clay pot.

When we think that we are so great that we can do recovery alone we need to share our thoughts with a trusted friend or mentor.

Surrendering our minds to the Lordship of Jesus Christ brings peace to our whole being.

There is a life in the shadows that is negative and promotes “shady living”.

We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments.

We have lived so long in darkness and been deceived by the devil, our culture, and our own thinking that there are many things that appear to us to be light that are actually darkness.

For the past couple of days we've been thinking about guilt - why we feel guilty and what we should do about it.

What are we doing from day to day, even moment to moment, to train ourselves to hear and respond to the voice of God?

How do we enter into this friendship relationship with God that makes life safe and satisfying and guarantees us life, beyond the grave, in heaven?