This coming Thursday I will be teaching the Celebrate Recovery lesson #2. It is POWERLESS. Lesson 1 is DENIAL. Once we step out of denial we must realize we are powerless to change on our own. We need God’s strength and protection as well as man’s accountability. Another reality for me has been that no matter how long I’ve been awake to my struggles, I will never in my flesh be anything but powerless. I cannot change my ugly behaviors with my own strength. The ugly me will show forth at some point.

I have this fantasy world I can live (in my head) that doesn’t have any sinfulness in it. I think my childhood build this alternate world and I’ve gone to it whenever there is crisis in life. Because of this, I’ve always wanted the “new creation” I now am to be the fantasy world I knew only in my head. It would be sinless and one would be all powerful. The problem is that the earthly new creation doesn’t place heaven’s quality of sinlessness in our lives at this point. Wishing it did has never helped either.

Being a new creation, living in the freedom of being a new creation, doesn’t take away sin’s temptations. I do have a choice however to seek out my accountability and turn to God and His Powerful help by confessing to Him and my accountability that I am under attack. This is staying in reality and not shifting into a fantasy which never works in our world of flesh. God’s Way is the right and BEST WAY!