The most remarkable thing happened last night at Celebrate Recovery. Each year at this time we celebrate Christmas by doing a blessings night. Over the years we have taken scriptures and personalized them to the attendees. We take the scripture, typing them out leaving a space for the recipient’s name to be spoken in the reading of the blessing. This is done one at a time with ladies blessing ladies and men the same for men. It is always a most touching evening. My own blessing read to me was from Galatians 5:13. This is what was read to me: “For Earnie was called to freedom. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” I just choked up when this was read to me.

This morning my devotional was titled, Him Through You. The message was that we can’t live the Christian life on our own and we should never think we are doing Christ’s Kingdom work on our own. This work is only done when Christ is doing it through us. His Strength becomes our own for we were never meant to live out God’s ministry work on our strength.

This devotional ends with this message: “Friend, God has chosen you for the service before you so He can shine His power through you–so that when the work is accomplished, people wont’ look to you, they will look to Him. So do not despair about your inadequacies; rather, submit to Him and rejoice that His glory shines through you.”

All of this just brought me to tears as I reflected on last night’s blessing and today’s devotional message. What an honor to get to serve God in this capacity. I’m so glad this journey does continue!