No matter where you are in your recovery journey, you have a choice to make each morning. Which path will you choose for the next 24 hours? Will you move toward taking the risks and enduring the discomfort that ultimately leads to an abundant life, or will you choose to entertain the shame and isolation that leads to relational and spiritual death?
“Even though an active addict might believe they are somehow avoiding pain through their compulsive behaviors, they are, in actuality, only choosing a different kind of pain. An addict really only has two choices and both are uncomfortable.
They can continue acting out with the realization that using addictive behaviors to meet their deep internal needs leads to increasingly destructive behavior and progressively damages their ability to function in personal relationships and grow spiritually in their relationship with God.
Or, they can allow Jesus to help them face the painful memories, fear of rejection and core sinful beliefs and free them from their grip. In Romans 6:15 Paul assures us ‘For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under the law, but under grace.’ God wants to deliver us from addiction’s grip, but he will not force us to accept his gift of ‘life more abundant’. It is ours to choose or reject.”
(Excerpt from Now Choose Life! by Janet K. Wheeler ©2013)
Which will you choose today?
“This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and cures. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice and hold fast to him.” —Deuteronomy 30: 19-20a
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