Making Mistakes
Often when we begin our new life with God in recovery, we get discouraged because we feel we are unable to control the urges of our old nature. But, as we choose to believe and act on the precious promises God has made to us, the new nature we have put on will develop and we will experience more control of our thoughts and behaviours. We have a Power greater than ourselves working in us to help us avoid making the mistakes our old nature is demanding.
For as you know him better, he will give you, through his great power, everything you need for living a truly good life: he even shares his own glory and his own goodness with us! (2 Peter 1:3 TLB)
He died for all so that all who live — having received eternal life from him — might live no longer for themselves, to please themselves, but to spend their lives pleasing Christ who died and rose again for them. (2 Corinthians 5:15 TLB)
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but be a new and different person with a fresh newness in all you do and think. Then you will learn from your own experience how his ways will really satisfy you. (Romans 12:2 TLB)
Prayer: Lord Jesus, Please renew my mind by the Power of Your Holy Spirit so that Your life-giving words may cause me to obey You in all I do and say. Amen
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