Let’s Go

TRUTH

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead.

Philippians‬ ‭3‬:‭13 ESV

REFLECTION

If only I were as good at looking at the truth ahead as I was at looking at the lies behind.

It’s easier to look back at the past and mull over the turmoil. It’s fun to look at the fun times and delight in them, but that usually lends itself into a nostalgia that can bend me into regret as easily as joy.

Likewise, it’s easier to look ahead into the unknown and despair. It’s easy to worry about what’s coming. To imagine the worst possible outcomes, though they typically don’t shake out.

For good reason, we typically advise to stay where our hands and feet are. To not regret the past, but to not fixate on it either. To eagerly await the future, but to not worry about it either.

Yet, it is good—necessary even—to truthfully and anxiously look toward our future in Him.

Because that future can be rightly lived out in the day in front of us.

We can take the truth of our new life, hope and faith and we can set it into action through every moment we have been gifted in this day.

We aren’t meant to simply pass through this day as an unwilling participant, or worse, a grumpy bystander. We were created, in Him, to do the good works that He prepared for us.

We have today what we always wanted in addiction: a purpose that will fulfill us.

We searched for that feeling of fullness everywhere. And it was always only a temporary fix.

Now we have it as a free gift that requires more than we bargained for but less than it should: our life.

The good news is that life becomes worth living once we stop doing it for ourselves.

God, thanks for a new perspective.

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NEXT

When you’re ready, here are some tools for you:

1. Book List (amazon link)
   Some of my favorite reads related to recovery and/or wrestling with faith.

2. 4th Step Guide (free download)
   A PDF with instructions and worksheets for a thorough 4th step. Straight from the Big Book. Fearlessness not included.

3. 12-Step Christianity (YouTube)
   My thoughts on the parallels between discipleship and sponsorship.

KEEP LEANING FORWARD

Cheers, Eamonn
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