I truly am a blessed person. God has shown up in my life in so many ways. I recently asked a young lady to give her testimony about what God has done for her. She said she was nervous, she heard a line in one of the worship songs – it was “How could I but love Him.” That one line in a song touched her and ignited her story. God works through so many different avenues. One of her favorite lines is ”I just wanted to be free.” For me it was freedom from alcohol, then freedom from emotional bagage and now free to serve others. Christ came to give us life and life more abundantly. We didn’t have a clue what real freedom was all about. Free to grow and love and serve. Just think of what liberty we have knowing that we are loved and forgiven. Jesus came to set the captive free. The third step prayer has a line about freedom from the bondage of self. In recovery I learned to replace old thinking by thinking of others. We really start to care about others. We want for them what we have received. It is an awesome thing to see others recover and see God’s truth that where there is love there is liberty.
July 16, 2007...11:38 pm
Freedom in Recovery
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