Meditations on ""

We are promised victory as we face trouble together with God and with people we trust to give us good advice.

In a moment of panic or temptation we don’t have to figure out what is really going on. We can simply tell ourselves to “do the next right thing”.

Only God’s touch can help us stand straight with dignity and strength and purpose today.

One of the consequences of living a destructive lifestyle is simply the sense of lostness we experience. Without the turning of our will and our lives over to the care of God, that darkness will end with us dying and going out to an eternity without God.

Time – a precious gift for all of us. God knows and cares about each of us at every time and in every season of our life.

As we recover, do we ever stop to consider what the deepest longing of our heart is? Jesus tells us that if we seek God’s Kingdom first, we will have everything we need.

Growing and being renewed day by day is part of our physical, emotional, and spiritual life. God has provided guidance for us in the Bible, including principles we can learn that will strengthen our desire to move forward and not give up hope.

The exact nature of our wrongs is rooted in the lie we tell ourselves that our problems are caused by what is around us rather than what is within us.

Thank goodness we are not expected to know everything the first day we come into recovery. We learn as we go. We do that through studying and observing; through listening to others; through putting healthy principles into action; and even through our mistakes. So, where do we start if we are to grow wise?

When we come to Step 4 in the 12-Step program we are asked to focus on ourselves and make a searching and fearless moral inventory. Taking responsibility for our actions is a great first step in the right direction.

If we decide to proceed with what God tells us to, no matter how incredible it might seem, we will experience the joy of seeing God work in ways we never thought possible.

We need to seek God to awaken us to the harmful choices we are unwilling to disclose.