Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 10/31/13 - What Counts is Who We Are

Recovery Christian Center Daily Meditation - 10/31/13 - What Counts is Who We Are 

"So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples." John 13:34-35

One of the big problems in both recovery and in Christianity is that we sometimes place to much emphasis on the wrong things. We put our identity into our material possessions, our jobs, our education, our relationship status, the success of our children and spend little time on our spiritual growth. We become obsessed with a different type of more. We are still looking for something on the outside of us to validate and fix the inside of us. But the point of recovery and a relationship with God is to work on who we are on the inside. The text tells us that folk will know that we are who we say we are not by our accumulation of stuff but by our love for each other. We are supposed to love others like God has loved us. Whether in Christ or in recovery or both the best demonstration of change and the best way to attract others to this way of life is not by what we have but who we are. As Dr. King so eloquently put it, "by the content of their character." We can only prove who we are and Who's we are by the love we share. The bling might catch their attention for a moment but the love will keep their attention for a lifetime.