Addiction Or Grace (1)
Monday January 23, 2017
God created the heavens and the earth and set them to run on His established laws. Gravity is one of those laws. When someone pushes a bag of trash into the garbage chute they can't see the law of gravity but they can hear the bag hit the bottom so they know that it is operating. In the same way, the existence of love and grace become evident in us when we turn our will and our lives over to God’s care.
May God give you more and more grace and peace as you grow in your knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord. By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. (2 Peter 1:2-3 NLT)
God created humans in His own image. God's plan for each person is to know Him and to have a fulfilling relationship with Him. We were also created to love and honour one another and to be at peace with the world around us. If we live with inner chaos and act out of our character defects, it is the outcome of our failure to know and respond to God’s unconditional love for us. In our society, people try to educate and fix humans so they will respect one another and the environment, without any input from the God who created both. It just doesn’t work.
For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and through him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s blood on the cross. This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. (Colossians 1:19-21 NLT)
We can choose today for life with God in recovery and experience the satisfying grace of God who loves and cares for us, or we can choose to continue to live self-destructively in our addictive lifestyle as if He did not exist. It’s a no-brainer, don’t you think?
Prayer – Heavenly Father, Thank you for Jesus, whose death on the cross brought peace to everything in heaven and on earth. I receive His life and love so I can begin to love and respect others and the environment in which I live. AMEN
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