Getting Off Track By Refusing To Listen

 To be responsible recovering addicts, we need to have regular contact with God and seek His wisdom and His will for our lives.  We need to ask God to give us understanding of the Scriptures and pray for His help in applying His principles in all our affairs.  It’s so easy to get lost in our old way of doing things and allow irresponsibility to kick start.  Our sponsor or a trusted friend may have spoken to us about getting off track, but we refused to listen. Before we knew it we were behaving in ways that were not in keeping with our new life with God in recovery and found ourselves heading in the direction of relapse. 

 Some of us deceive ourselves by justifying our behaviour and the bad choices we are making.  We may have hurt someone with angry words or behaved unacceptably.  We may have stayed silent to avoid dealing with a situation where gossip was being spread.  We may then foolishly have spread the gossip we heard.  We are accountable to God and to those in authority for the unwise choices we make. If we were to judge ourselves, could we say we were loving our neighbour as ourselves? 

 If we humbly ask God to help us change those things we can, God will enable us to do so, and to live in the wisdom of His word.  Choosing to actively live in loving relationship with God and with our neighbours will empower us to live a joyful life which no one can take from us.  As God blesses us abundantly, we will in turn be a blessing to others. 

Prayer: Loving God, I need Your wisdom and understanding to change my uncaring ways and actions.  My desire is to love You with all my heart and to love my neighbour as myself, please help me to do so.  Amen  

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