The sermon series our senior pastor has been focusing his messages on has been DECIDE NOW. He wrapped this up yesterday with the message focus being COURAGE. Following the second service we had our monthly Celebrate Recovery leadership meeting. I couldn’t help but think how everyone of us sitting at this table needed to take that courageous step when we first came to CR. There have been hundreds who have taken this first step in the past 16 years, but the first one is the hardest. With that first step one has to be willing to say out loud he has a need that must be faced and I cannot do it alone.

I have truly loved/appreciated these weeks of focus on this topic. God’s Holy Spirit nudges us to take this step. Sometimes He is nudging us to come along side someone who needs our encouragement to take the step. In these cases we need to muster our courage to ask them to take this step with us. Obedience is the key here which seems (at least it did for me) like it might cost me my entire career and friendships. Instead, what it did was open a door for joining God in an area I thought must be kept buried until my body was buried.

Oh, how important it is to DECIDE NOW. Trusting God in an entirely new way will become an unexpected benefit!