Giving Yourself to a Higher Power

Have you made a decision to not use drugs or alcohol? Did you then find yourself using anyway, and not understand why you couldn’t listen to yourself in the first place?

“I now see that I, of myself am powerless—unable to control (manage) my life by myself!”

That takes tremendous courage to admit and recognize that we are powerless. How did we come to that revelation? Human nature does not willingly want to hand over control to anybody, so how did I come to that decision? How long did it take and what did it take to get me there?

Are those questions ever answered – Yes!

You see it takes so much from us to admit this but from God’s perspective, He has never given up on us… Never! No matter how awful and desperate our lives have become, He will pick us up and rebuild, remold and refashion our lives.

Looking at the video extracts from the Japan disaster one could almost ask “is it possible that anything can be rebuilt there, will it ever look the same?” From many disasters we see something more beautiful come from them. Drug addiction brings devastation to lives, much like natural disasters, because it destroys everything beautiful about our lives. Yet, hope for a more beautiful outcome resides in the Word of God, and starts with recognizing the damage we are causing.

Once we recognize how helpless we are to fight our alcohol and drug addiction, we must look outside ourselves. We must look to God for the power we need. He is available to help us as we seek to rebuild our life destroyed by the drug abuse. Once admitting our powerlessness, we can follow God’s program for godly living.

This is where committing ourselves to a Christian drug abuse program will be a tremendous guide to successful alcohol and drug addiction recovery. A structured drug rehab program, like The Recovery Place’s, can restore our self-acceptance, self-worth and help us learn to forgive ourselves and others. Once we have made that decision to turn our life over to God, we must consciously choose to follow his way for a guide through successful addiction recovery. We need to continually reassess our progress, taking a regular moral inventory of our life. The tools we need to assist us on the road to recovery are more clearly defined and guided by professional therapists, who themselves know God and truly believe His ability and willingness to help us. Their own lives are testimonies to that reality.

Obedience to God’s program is one of the requirements for spiritual growth, but how can we lead a clean, innocent life like he wants us to? We have already admitted that we are powerless over our addiction; now, through the structure of a Christian drug abuse program we can continue the journey through God’s Word. God not only asks us to live a godly life, he also provides us with the power (and tools) to do it.

Philippians 2: 13

“For God is working in you, giving you the desire and power to do what pleases him.”