Bible reading: Deuteronomy 30:15 – 20
Step 3: We made a decision to turn our lives and our wills
over to the care of God.
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to
offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your
spiritual act of worship.” (Romans 12:1)
Principle 3: Consciously choose to commit all of my life and
will to Christ care and control.
“Happy are the meek.” (Matthew 5:8)
Everyone has a life or death decision to make. We have been
created with the supreme privilege of free will, the ability to choose. Even
when we are in the bondage of our addiction we still have choices confronting
us. When we are in recovery, we face the nagging lure of choosing to fall back
into our addictions. The freedom to choose brings with it the burden of the
results of our choices. And these choices affect our lives and the lives of our
children. Free will is our blessing and our responsibility!
God spoke through Moses, saying, “Look, today I have set
before you life and death, depending on whether you obey or disobey. I have
commanded you today to love the Lord your God and follow his paths, to keep his
laws, so that you will live… And so that the Lord your God will bless you… But
if your hearts turned away and you won’t listen… Then I declare to you this day
that you shall surely perish… I call heaven and earth to witness against you
that today I have set before you life or death, blessing or curse. Oh, that you
would choose life; that you and your children might live! Choose to love the Lord
your God and to obey him into cling to him, for he is your life and the length
of your days” (Deuteronomy 30:15 – 20).
Although we may feel out of control with respect to our
addiction, we can choose to set our hearts in the direction of life. We can choose
to love God and begin to follow his paths.
God doesn’t force his will on us, but he is there if we
decide to put ourselves in his hands.
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