Wings Devotional Recovery ... March 18, 2008

JUST FOR TODAY! -- First Things First 

From "When AA Came of Age:"

"After six months of failure on my [Bill W.'s ] part to dry up any drunks, he [Dr. Silkworth] reminded me of Professor William James's observation that truly transforming spiritual experiences are nearly always founded on calamity and collapse.  'Stop preaching at them,' Dr. Silkworth had said, 'and give them the hard medical facts first.  This may soften them up at depth so that they will be willing TO DO ANYTHING to get well.  Then they may accept those spiritual ideas of yours, and even a higher Power.'"

c. 1957, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, page 13

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Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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First things first -- should mean, meet others on their level.  How many times have we heard it said “don’t hit them over the head with the Bible.”  Our Messiah, Jesus, always met the people on their level, at the place they were, both mentally and physically.  He would start conversation and give them the truth of their lives and the things that could help them in their lives. 

It was Jesus’ life example and His willingness to state the hard cold facts that led people into deeper truths. 

He is our example, we should live our lives according To what we say – “walk the walk.”  By doing so, we will show others hope and that may place the desire in their hearts, to want what we have -- sobriety!

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"  (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?"  (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. )

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?  Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"

Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst.  Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."

He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."

"I have no husband," she replied.

Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband.  The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."

"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."

Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.  You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.  Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming.  When he comes, he will explain everything to us."

Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."

Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman.  But no one asked, "What do you want?"  or "Why are you talking with her?"

Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.  Could this be the Christ?"  They came out of the town and made their way toward him. -- John 4:7-28

* As you make your requests known to the Lord, include:

·        greater personal discipline,

·        worldwide persecuted Christians,

·        Hedge of protection to our children

·        Blessings to our spouses

·        Godly men in Government

·        Rest and Peace to our pastors

·        Your activities for the day.

Love One Another

Stand Together

Fight this war, no matter the cost

Pray for our children

Turn our hearts toward heaven

Seek to be one nation under God.

God Bless and Guide You in your Christian Walk Today

“The Lord bless you and keep you,
the Lord make his face shine upon you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”
-- Numbers 6:24-27

You can help when no one else can."
  -- c. 2001, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 89
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