Serenity Saturday Today’s Choice: Peace Or “picking Up”
Saturday November 19, 2016
God's kingdom runs on the law of love and peace. It really does! Whatever is broken around us, or in us, is not of God. It is the failure of humans to know and respond to God’s foundational law.
For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of what we eat or drink, but of living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace. (Romans 14:17, 8:6 NLT)
Some of us never knew or simply didn’t believe that God had a plan to work out in our lives. We believed our dysfunctional circumstances were the controlling factor of our destiny. We longed for peace and went to great lengths to find it. We believed things like money, food, sex, and power would meet the need within us. However, we soon found out that not only were we wrong about meeting our needs our way, but the path we were on led us into the bondage of addiction. As we make the effort to navigate the road to recovery, we may again seek to meet our own needs. While it is important to “not pick up” our drug or habit of choice, it is even more important to seek the path to a new and sustainable life. God offers us new life through faith in Jesus Christ. When our hearts are filled with the knowledge of God, we will be aware of the need to choose God’s way, rather that our own flawed way.
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13 NLT) As we encounter challenges in our daily life, we do not have sufficient strength in ourselves to sustain changed behaviour and find inner peace to do the right thing. We need an ongoing supply of inner strength from God, which He will freely supply.
Heavenly Father, please fill me again today with your Holy Spirit so I can stand strong with confident hope and peace in a world of change and challenge. Thank you for this day with you in recovery.
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