Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 8/15/13 - Step 3: Understanding Commitment

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Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 8/15/13 - Step 3: Understanding Commitment

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones." Proverbs 3:5-8 NLT

Step 3: We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God through Jesus Christ.

One of the biggest principle in the 3rd Step is commitment. It's also the one we struggle with the most. We do feel the pull in our spirit to surrender ourselves to God but many times we become tempted to take our will back. If we think God is taking too long or if we think we can do it better we will many times stick our hands in it again only to find ourselves jammed up again and having to return to God in repentance.

We have the surrender part down, albeit temporarily but the commitment required to leave it there still eludes us. We try to justify it by saying that all recovering people and many new Christians have commitment issues, but let's be real. We were whole an deeply committed to the behaviors, relationships, lifestyles or situations that were destroying us prior to coming to Christ. We were committed regardless of the circumstances or consequences so it's now time to put that same level of trust, belief, faith and commitment into the same God that has brought us out from what was killing us. It's time to completely surrender our will and our lives to Him and to be committed to leaving them there. He surely hasn't brought us this far to drop us off, leave us or say sike.