Recovery Isn’t Something You Do

Recovery Isn’t Something You Do

Recovery

It’s something you allow to happen. It’s a spiritual experience. It wells up from the inside of you. It doesn’t come from any effort that you apply to yourself, or apply yourself to. You have to allow success to happen. God wants to bless you with it...
Recovery Isn’t Something You Do

Behold, the Humility of God!

Change of Heart, Personal Revelation

This evening, as I went to bed, I felt reluctant to kneel, and I expressed that reluctance to the Lord, rather than hiding it (and myself) from Him. I immediately felt His reassurance that He still loves me and is willing to receive my prayers, no matter what posture...
Recovery Isn’t Something You Do

Nothing Else Will Suffice

Personal Revelation

Nothing will suffice or satisfy the longing that always simmers at the core of our souls like having a personal experience of God’s reality. Nothing.  Not family.  Not church service.  Not anything. What is that longing and yearning that we seek to numb with the use...
Recovery Isn’t Something You Do

Why Do You Come to the Lord?

Change of Heart, Christ, Personal Revelation

I once heard the question asked, “Are you coming to God because you love Him, or because you want to use Him?” That seemed like a pretty rude question, and at first I was offended. But when I stopped to give it some reflection, applying it and pondering on it in the...
Recovery Isn’t Something You Do

Abstinence: It Takes Time

abstinence

We think that the mighty change of heart is going to mean an immediate mighty change of habit. The truth is that there is a distance to go between the heart, which is the seat of our desires and willingness, and the brain, which is the seat of our habits.  We often...