Staying Connected
Trying to stay connected and maintain a close and healthy relationship with anyone else in active addiction was impossible. Only our drug of choice had our full attention. As we come into recovery, God invites us to regain the beautiful plan He has for us to live in a loving and caring relationship with Him, and then with others with whom we form a relationship. Jesus prayed about this long ago, echoing what God's heart was from before creation:
I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me. (John 17:21 NLT)
Staying connected means we come close and allow ourselves to be attached. We do not hide. We joyfully open up our thoughts and feelings to someone with whom we feel safe and accepted. We also look for ways to get to know this person. We want all that each of us are to be known and shared.
And this is the way to have eternal life—to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth. (John 17:3 NLT)
Jesus left heaven to come to earth so we would know the depth of God’s love for us. We get to know God and His gracious heart towards us as we learn and obey what He tells us works, and avoid those things that harm us.
I can do nothing alone. I judge only the way I am told. And my judgment is right, because I am not trying to please myself. I want only to please the one who sent me. (John 5:30 ERV)
Are we willing to live connected to God today? What would it take for us to only do those things that were on God’s heart for us to do? The truth is, we have no life outside of this connection to God through Jesus. This step-by-step, moment-by-moment connection with God is the only way we will overcome our addiction and maintain sobriety.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, Please heal my heart and help me to respond to Your kind invitation to live close to You each day and follow Your ways in everything I do and say. Amen
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