There is something utterly amazing about living “…one day at a time and one moment at a time….” as is quoted in the Serenity Prayer. Without exception, everyone who comes for counseling or comes to Celebrate Recovery do so seeking help. Each one believes in God, but in every case, each one struggles to believe God. I write this today because this has been me almost all of my entire life.

The devotional I’m presently using is “God’s Purpose for Your Life” by Charles F. Stanley. The statement I used above saying, “each one believes in God but each one struggles to believe God” comes from this devotional. On Wednesdays I typically meet with 6 individuals. In meeting with them yesterday, each one was struggling to believe God by what He tells us in His Word. In every case, I hear, “Then why….?”

I have needed to learn to seek God’s purpose in my life rather than I being the one to try and put purpose for my life. Helping others to see that their lives, no matter what has taken place in them, past or present, can be tools in God’s Hands when we surrender them. Oh, how I pled with God to obliterate my past from my memories. Because He never would, I pled for Him to give me strength to keep it hidden. Instead, He gently guided me to a place of trust so I could begin to see that I could trust Him to use my story (my past) rather than obliterate it or hide it.

Today I believe God! Spending my time helping others shift from believing in God to trusting they can believe God is such a great privilege. I cannot thank God enough for His patience in turning my life around so that nothing in it has to be hidden any longer. Only our GOD does this!