We are about to complete our 16th year of Celebrate Recovery mid-September. Last night was the 24th lesson for the year with only one more lesson and testimony to go. The lesson 24 is entitled–YES. It’s message is our learning to say YES to God in regards to serving Him when we are nudged to do so. Any important yes for CR is the yes to giving one’s testimony for the work God has done to bring you out of the darkness you hide into the Light of Jesus. The simple meaning of saying YES to Jesus is important and I’ve always agreed to it.

Last night something else stood out to me about the YES message. What hit me was what I said yes to before CR and what I now say yes to subsequent to CR. I’ve always been a person who would most often agree to do what I was asked to do in serving God. BUT, if I were to have been asked to share my story I was hiding prior to CR, I would have said NO loudly. There was no way I was going to let that part of me be known to the world around me. The message last night was an important one for me to realize what saying YES to God is like when I take myself out of the control seat.

I use to say yes to God when it felt good to me. I thought that was right and what I should do. Today I realize God is asking/nudging because it will complete a work He wants done by me. It may not “feel good” at the moment, but in saying yes and doing it, I then realize how important it truly is. It is then the “good feeling” comes. It is so much richer to know one is completing God’s purpose rather than one’s own purpose.