Admitting What's Wrong
Thursday May 3, 2018
Life on God’s terms is simply that – life on God’s terms. This is the new way of living we say we want when we come into recovery. Assessing our lives based on God’s principles helps us recognize how far from truth and reality we have lived. God created us for relationship with Himself and with others. Wrong doing is sin and not in keeping with God’s original plan for us. To set things right, we start at the beginning and admit all our wrong doing to God. We ask for and receive God’s forgiveness for our rebellion against Him, and for the harm we have caused ourselves and others. We then seek His guidance to turn away from our familiar behaviour and follow His principles that will lead us into a purposeful life.
Living as though we don’t need God makes us prideful and will eventually leave us without hope. We often had our own ideas about why we were in the condition we were in but our thinking was flawed and twisted. It’s time to admit we got it wrong. We would do well to ask Jesus to speak to us about the real nature of our problem. Jesus wants us to know the truth for the truth will set us free to be the person we were created to be. Jesus will accompany us into those deep places in our souls that we would never dare to venture into on our own. He will reveal what needs to be brought into the light. He’ll tell us the truth about ourselves but will do so with tenderness and grace. He’ll show us the way out of our insanity that doesn’t lead to a dead end. He will guide us into a life that is filled with peace and contentment.
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. (2 Corinthians 5:17, 19 NLT)
Prayer: Heavenly Father, help me to humbly and honestly admit what’s gone wrong in my life. Show me the truth about myself. Help me to know and walk in Your ways, honouring You in all I do and say. Amen
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