There is so much about a journey that I am learning.  One–it never ends until life has ended.  In other words, I will never arrive.  There is always more.  My whole life had been spent needing to arrive at being whole.  I thought if God would take away the past I had, remove the temptations I was left with along with the hatred of them, I would be whole and I would have arrived.  Well–God has done so much more than removed them.  He has shown me He wants me using them to help others with their own.  He framed the temptations with understanding.  I am a man on this earth.  As long as I’m alive I will live with temptations.  We all have them even though they are not all the same.  What we do with them is what is key.

In my devotions yesterday God was showing me that the voices of those around me would be screaming.  I would need to be still and know that He is God, rely on Him and not the messages of the the voices.  By noontime yesterday I have heard many of the screaming messages.  I had a couple of my own troubling me.  By last night I was weary and then the last message came.  I wanted to do as I had always done in the past–self medicate.  I finally went to bed and slept somewhat.  When I would awake I would thank God for these issues and what He was going to do with them.

This morning God has made all things clear.  What I needed to let go I have, what I needed a plan to address I now have, and what I do today is now ready to be done.  God is good.  If I am learning anything on this journey it is that staying on it with obedience to God’s nudges is sometimes tough.

One of the calls yesterday was from a young man who was ready to quit.  He’s so tired of “not winning” the battles he’s facing.  I so know this struggle and the desire to quit.  The one good thing is he reached out.  That is something I didn’t know to do at his age and certainly had no one to trust with my story at that time.  But, God is using the steps I’ve learned to guide others for their own steps.  For this I am most grateful.  It inspires me to stay on this journey.  To God be all Glory!