Seems like we have all wandered off into other paths…May I invite my brothers and sisters home to our site to share His love, word and message?
For me, today has been a blessing in so many ways. A chance to share my faith with an old friend came this morning; someone who also has faced troubles with alcohol and drugs in his life. I reminded him that while 12-step programs prefer to use such silliness as “God as I understand Him” the real God has already defined Himself in the Gospels.
Making up your own God might be ok for a while for some; in the end it left me lost and adrift; able to make up any rules and any ideas that suited my life at that moment.
Thank God for the Word made flesh!
09/02/2010 at 5:02 pm Permalink
Amen Ross. Truth alone can deliver and the truth cannot be defined by some relative idea or concepts, but must be embraced as it is; truth!
The truth is God is not only able, but it is the Gospel itself “Good News” that a man can be “born again,” created anew. I don’t want to be what I used to be and the Gospel says I do not have to be.
Thank God I “was” an acoholic and drug addict, and this past tense view is not rooted in arrogance or self-reliance but in faith that He will always allow me to start every day anew! Alleluia!