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Friday January 19, 2018

God created the heavens and the earth and set them to run on His established boundaries and laws.  Gravity is one of those laws.  When someone pushes a bag of trash into a garbage chute they can't see the law of gravity, but it is obvious when the bag hits bottom.  In the same way, the existence of love and grace in us becomes evident when we turn our will and our lives over to the care of God.

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 us in His own image. God planned for each of us to have a fulfilling relationship with Him, to love and honour one another, and to be at peace with the world around us.  When 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.  


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 for life with God in recovery and experience the satisfying grace of God as He loves and cares for us, or we can choose to live self-destructively in our addictive lifestyle as if God did not exist.  It seems to be a no-brainer decision, don’t you think?


Prayer:  Heavenly Father, I choose for a satisfying life with You.  Please fill me to overflowing with Your love and grace so that I might exhibit the wonder of Your life in me. Amen


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