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Maturity Tools At The Ready

Tuesday September 13, 2022

Living life with God in recovery is a learning process. When we gave our will and life over to the care of God, the decision we made included dying to the person we had become and being born again into a new life with God where we grow and mature into the person God created us to be. 

So don’t remember what happened in earlier times. Don’t think about what happened a long time ago, because I am doing something new! Now you will grow like a new plant. Surely you know this is true. I will even make a road in the desert, and rivers will flow through that dry land. (Isaiah 43:18-19 ERV)

We have humbled ourselves and repented before God of our former ways. The change in our attitude and actions will confirm that we are no longer slaves to our past but are maturing in our love for God and for those around us. We are showing mercy and compassion in our relationships rather than exhibiting self-serving actions and bullying of those who are defenseless against our demands.

Change your hearts! And show by your lives that you have changed. The ax is now ready to cut down the trees. Every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. (Luke 3:8a, 9 ERV) 

As any newborn child, growth and maturity in our new life will take time. We need God’s written word and the help of others to grow and mature.  On our own we will not survive, but with God, and others, and our willingness to persevere, we will grow and produce the fruit of peace and contentment in our lives.  As we continue to mature in our faith, our desire will be to carry this message to others who are still being deceived by their own thinking and need to be born again into a purposeful new life .

Our tools are ready at hand for clearing the ground of every obstruction and building lives of obedience into maturity. (2 Corinthians 10:6 MSG)

Prayer:  Gracious God, Help me to die to my old self and persevere in the gift of new life with You.  My desire is to honour You and walk humbly before You, showing justice and mercy to everyone I meet.  Amen

©2022 Partners in Hope 

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