Revive me! Weekly Reflections #24 ©www.christian-recovery.com

2Ti 2:2-3 And what you heard from me through many witnesses, these [things] be committing to trustworthy people, who will be competent also to teach others. Therefore, you endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Hardly feel like a good soldier of Christ? Barely feel as if you can teach yourself let alone others? These two sentences might well sum up the Christian journey and the battle of recovery. Our affliction is with purpose. We suffer not alone as one abandoned. Our ache for now is to produce growth--in us and in others. We would have a zero based knowledge of unhealthiness if we did not experience it first hand. We could not give testimony as to how Jesus delivered us and the path that was taken to produce it. Let me say it again. We suffer not alone as one abandoned.

God knows full well our adversity. He knows full well what it takes to free us. He even knows the day down to the last hour. He knows that by trying us, he is making us a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Who ever joined the armed services to not wager a good war? And that is what you must do as you attack your bondage. It is for a purpose and its ultimate reason is so that you might glorify God in your (testimony) teaching to others. Can you begin to think of yourself as competent? Able? Complete? Whole? A witness of God's grace? If you can begin to think of your slavery to the flesh as only temporary and a teaching tool to enrich your walk in Christ, you will find your mindset one step closer to the freedom you seek. Be blessed and be a blessing.

Lord God, I do believe that You have a higher purpose for my life that I cannot yet envision. Help me to see with Your eyes and to understand with Your wisdom. Make me victorious through Christ Jesus. Amen

 
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