Wings Devotional Recovery ... April 10, 2008

JUST FOR TODAY! -- Starting Point

From "Fear as a Steppingstone:"

"For all its usual destructiveness, we have found that fear can be the starting point for better things.  Fear can be a steppingstone to prudence and to a decent respect for others.  It can point the path to justice, as well as to hate.  And the more we have of respect and justice, the more we shall begin to find the love which can suffer much, and yet be freely given.  So fear need not always be destructive, because the lessons of its consequences can lead us to positive values."

c. 1967, As Bill Sees It, page 22

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Just for Today -- A Daily Devotional

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Fear is an emotion we do experience in our addictive lives.  Fear of getting caught, fear of not getting our next fix, fear of recovery as well.  We live in fear when we are actively addicted because we lack the faith in God that can pull us out. 

Fear can lead us into recovery because we have reached that bottom, that point of desperation -- so we must do something different because we fear the consequences of doing the same thing.

Recovery turns our FEAR into FAITH in the most awesome Lord -- who loves us and gave Himself up for us -- He took our sins -- and paid the penalty we should have paid -- The Christian world has just celebrated the resurrection of Yeshua – Jesus, may you rejoice in this and in this being a start for the resurrection of your heart.

Taking Jesus' body, the two of them wrapped it, with the spices, in strips of linen.  This was in accordance with Jewish burial customs.  At the place where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus there.

Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance.  So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb.  Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.  He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.  Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb.  He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head.  The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen.  Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside.  He saw and believed.  (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)

Then the disciples went back to their homes, but Mary stood outside the tomb crying.  As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?"

    "They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him."  At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus. -- John 19:40 – 20:14

* 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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