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I just returned home from a Celebrate Recovery meeting at Bridgeway. What can I say? I'm absolutely jazzed about what God is doing there. I spent half of the day worrying about how the meeting was going to go. I wasn't familiar with the material and hadn't had much time to look it over, I didn't feel mentally or spiritually or emotionally prepared, and I was feeling the weight of being Christ's representative on Earth to the men of this program. To be honest, I didn't feel like I was in a really good place heading into the meeting. The wild thing is that God provided time for me to look over the materials and establish what I thought was important to the meeting.
We got started and God took over.
We only discussed a fraction of what I had planned and still found ourselves flowing over our timeslot. We talked about the need to establish that God is control of our lives and that no measure of worry about something will ever bring us control or bring change to a situation. Interesting... though I looked at the material, "learned" it in order to "teach" it, and even prepared examples to describe it... I still didn't really see and know this truth until we hopped into the trenches with the men in recovery. Wouldn't you know that I was missing the point all the way until one of the clients quoted Proverbs 3:5-6 (Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.) Who's "teaching" who?
Here's what I'm trying to say... I can be a truly dense guy. So often God has to repeatedly pound me over the head with his truth before I start to get a glimpse of what he's telling me. He wants me to relinquish this feeble grip I have on my life and permit him to take his rightful place as Lord over me. He is the one... the only one... who can do anything with this vessel. I thank God that he has brought me to Missouri and to Bridgeway so that I may learn his ways. It can be a tough road to travel in learning how to live beyond who I naturally am, but God is faithful and his word is true. If I allow myself to be crucified with Christ ( letting go of my anxieties, fears, and pride), it is guaranteed that people will see more of Christ as he is the one who is living in me.
See, I told you I'm dense.
We got started and God took over.
We only discussed a fraction of what I had planned and still found ourselves flowing over our timeslot. We talked about the need to establish that God is control of our lives and that no measure of worry about something will ever bring us control or bring change to a situation. Interesting... though I looked at the material, "learned" it in order to "teach" it, and even prepared examples to describe it... I still didn't really see and know this truth until we hopped into the trenches with the men in recovery. Wouldn't you know that I was missing the point all the way until one of the clients quoted Proverbs 3:5-6 (Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.) Who's "teaching" who?
Here's what I'm trying to say... I can be a truly dense guy. So often God has to repeatedly pound me over the head with his truth before I start to get a glimpse of what he's telling me. He wants me to relinquish this feeble grip I have on my life and permit him to take his rightful place as Lord over me. He is the one... the only one... who can do anything with this vessel. I thank God that he has brought me to Missouri and to Bridgeway so that I may learn his ways. It can be a tough road to travel in learning how to live beyond who I naturally am, but God is faithful and his word is true. If I allow myself to be crucified with Christ ( letting go of my anxieties, fears, and pride), it is guaranteed that people will see more of Christ as he is the one who is living in me.
See, I told you I'm dense.
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