As this journey continues I want to take a moment and write only about the goodness of God. When we struggle with life: addictions, hurts, hang-ups and habits they are all resulting from living in a world of sinful influence and man having choice. God has given us the opportunity to live in His goodness, mercy and grace if we simply accept His Son Jesus into our lives. He gave to each of us the opportunity to choose His Son to be our path to Him–God Almighty. Jesus came to be our once and for all, sacrifice. The beauty is that this sacrifice is good for all of us and for all time.

When we struggle it is so easy for Satan to keep our minds focused only on the struggle, the hurt so we only see ourselves and our inability to do anything but continue with the struggle and hurts. In doing this our eyes are essentially on his work in us. God, on the other hand, wants us to lift our eyes to Him to see the tremendously wonderful GIFT He has offered us in Jesus Christ. As we keep our eyes on Jesus the struggle and its grip on us begins to diminish for the power to overcome comes solely from Christ Jesus and His Gift to us–THE HOLY SPIRIT.

The reality of God’s Goodness is beyond what my mind can grasp. But what I do know is that I only want God’s Strength in me for my own failed me far too long. Keeping our eyes of God’s Goodness is such a GIFT. Lets never forget it.