Admitting What’s Wrong

Life on God’s terms is the 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 the way of truth and the reality of an abundant life we have lived.  God created us for relationship with Himself and with others.  Wrongdoing is sin and not in keeping with God’s original plan for us.  To set things right, we start at the beginning and admit and repent of all our wrongdoing before God.   We ask for and receive God’s forgiveness for our rebellion against Him and for the harm we have caused both ourselves and others.  We then seek His guidance to turn away from our learned behaviour and choose to follow His principles that will lead us into a purposeful life. 

Living with the attitude that we don’t need God in our lives makes us prideful and eventually will leave us without hope for our future.  In the past we had our own ideas about why we were in the condition we were in but our thinking was flawed and twisted and it’s time to admit that we got it wrong. We would do well to ask Jesus to reveal to us the real nature of our problems. 

We were born with a sin nature that Jesus died to free us from.  He 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 and into a life that is filled with peace and contentment. 

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, Help me to humbly and honestly admit what has 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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