How you think of God, frames your reality.
Think about it. I either consider God’s Will for my life, or I rely on my own will. Ha Ha—I know where my own will got me—to my bottom!
When I began to frame my reality differently and rely on God and His plan for my life, everything changed. My perception of everything changed. My reality changed.
I was headed down the wrong path while drinking—of sure destruction and death. I have seen it in my own life and with people around me deep in their addiction.
If you believe there is right and wrong and we inherently know the difference between the two, you can believe we have a “just” God. He is good and He is also just. He corrects when we reach out to him.
I struggle with judgement. Judgement of people, judgement about the world. But, “judging wrong is the right thing to do.” This is justice. If we don’t see something is wrong, it is easier to stay stuck in that bad behavior. If we cannot see it, we deny it or blow right past what is truly not working or wrong and that becomes our normal. The line between right and wrong is fudged and smudged to where the line moves—it is made wider—to include more bad behavior.
When I finally noticed that my drinking behavior was escalating and taking me down the wrong path, I had to change something. The problem was, I was trying to change it from the same brain that led me down that path in the first place. I had to look to a power outside myself for help. God. God did for me what I could not do for myself.
I was fifty-years-old when I got sober! If I could have stopped drinking on my own, I would have!
I needed God to pluck me out and stand me up again on right footing. With God’s help, I had power to do things differently. To not have to drink as a solution. To show up sober and whole and ready for service to others.
Out of my head. Out of my control. Out of my will.
I must stay in God’s Will to frame my new reality.
You can do this too.
“I waited patiently for the Lord; He turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him.”
Psalm 40:1-3
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