Spiritual Awakening
What is the spiritual awakening we come to experience as we walk with God in recovery? What is the message that we share? What is the life we seek to practice?
Before we came into recovery we probably never thought much about God or consulted Him about the plan He had for us when we were created. We lived our lives as though God did not exist. As we came to believe that God, our Higher Power, could and would restore us to sanity, we turned our will and our life over to His care. What does that mean? It means we confess and turn away from our sin and admit that living in separation from God results in our lives becoming unmanageable. We humbly ask God to come into our miserable existence, take control, make us children of God, and fill us with the new life that Jesus died to make available to us.
The Holy Spirit of God awakens our spirit, and we begin to know the unfailing love of our Heavenly Father. We make a choice to abandon our old life and humbly ask God to remove our shortcomings and to empower us to live in His ways. Life begins to change.
But God is faithful and fair. If we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins. He will forgive every wrong thing we have done. He will make us pure. See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! (1 John 1:9 NIRV, 1 John 3:1 NIV)
Prayer: Loving God, Thank You, thank You, thank You for this new life I have with You in recovery. Once again, I surrender my will and life into Your care. I truly want to know Your will for my life and have the power to carry it out. Amen
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