I have been facing a battle for a few months now which I won’t give details to, but I have been needing to face it and not run from it. Yesterday I was journaling about it and I felt the nudge to tell my Celebrate Recovery sponsor. He doesn’t live locally any longer so we text a couple times a day in order to stay in touch with one another. Last night I did let him know of this. He actually didn’t see my message until early this morning when he responded with encouragement and prayer.

As I was journaling this morning and asked Jesus what He wanted me to know from HIm for today, His response was something I should have already known, but I hadn’t. He reminded me that I am no longer the old self He had already redeemed. I didn’t need to run to old habits/escape routes I’ve learned to use in my old self. He is always the answer and always will be.

Struggles always have a lesson right behind them which God wants to use for growing us. This morning I have had the lesson made very clear and I thank God once again for His loving kindness and clarity. God’s Freedom He gives is not for most things, it is for all things as we are reminded to give them to Him. What a wonderful Father our God is!