Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 4/13/12 - Step 12 - Sharing God's Love

"What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since He did not spare even His own Son but gave Him up for us all, won’t He also give us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for His own? No one—for God Himself has given us right standing with Himself. Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and He is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us. Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean He no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For Your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.” ) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us. And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:31-39 NLT

Step 12: Having had a spiritual experience as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others, and practice these principles in all our affairs. (12 Steps for Christian Recovery)

The ultimate goal of the process of Christian Recovery is not to just no longer do what ever we are recovering from but to allow God to change us so dramatically that we become a living demonstration of the power of His love. The message we carry is hope. Hope that through a loving relationship with Christ that we can be free because of His sacrifice on the cross. The 12 Steps and the Word of God have provided us a path back to God and to change. We who were lost and broken are found and made whole. We aren't perfect but we are being perfected. The love that God has shown us wasn't just intended for us to absorb without sharing. God saved us to use us as an instrument of His will, to let our example shine for others so that folk will be drawn to Him by the change they see in us.

That is the essence of the message, that God loves us so much that He changed us so that we can attract others to be changed. The best way we carry the message is by example. We share His love by the love we share.