Our old ways of thinking and behaving are being transformed as we journey with God in our new life in recovery. New things bring new challenges as they push against our old ways. Taking regular personal inventory enables us to assess if the challenges are just the temporary pain of new muscles being built or, if vulnerable areas we need to deal with are being exposed. It’s important that our ongoing daily inventory starts with what is being revealed.
Oh, that we might know the Lord! Let us press on to know Him. He will respond to us as surely as the arrival of dawn or the coming of rains in early spring.
(Hosea 6:3 NLT)
What are we doing from day to day to train ourselves to hear and respond to the voice of God? Are we challenging ourselves to do things like pray and read and reflect on God’s Word? As we choose to follow this discipline, we will discover that life as God describes it is different from what we have practiced, or what we experience around us in everyday society. Comparing God’s ways with known ways forms the basis of our ongoing daily inventory. It helps us identify how we are growing in obeying God’s Word and putting it into practice in our daily lives.
Trust in the Lord and do good; live in the land and be safe. Seek your happiness in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desire. Give yourself to the Lord; trust in him, and he will help you. (Psalm 37:3-5a GNT)
God has a plan for our life that gives satisfaction, meaning, and joy. As we continue to take personal inventory, and promptly adjust any shortcomings, we will achieve the desired ease of living at peace with God, with ourselves, and with our neighbor.
Heavenly Father, we are grateful to be enriched by Your goodness and love through each step of our journey. Thank You for the assurance that as our thoughts and actions are transformed to follow Your will, we will experience more and more satisfaction in our daily living.
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