Last night’s lesson for Celebrate Recovery was titled “Crossroads”. It is lesson 19 of 25 so we are nearing the end of the year. This lesson reminds us that at this point in our recovery we need to remember that God is providing a new road for us to travel on. This road in scripture is called the “high road”, I Corinthians 6:7. When we travel this road, we do so as a new creation.

For my first several years in CR I battled the man I was at that time trying to find that the new creation I was suppose to be. It was at this time the person teaching the lesson at the time told the story of a man saddling a dead horse, getting on him and saying getty up. This is what I had been doing. I was trying to put God’s armor on my old self thinking it would keep this old self from sinning and remembering his past. I needed to let myself see me as a new creation. This new man had a past that didn’t need to be forgotten. As a new creation my past had no bondage, instead I had freedom from it and could now use it as God nudged for His Kingdom work. Putting God’s armor on this new creation kept Satan from hindering God’s Kingdom work from being done.

Hearing this message last night on Crossroads was such a great reminder of this freedom God bestows when we accept the gifts/healing He offers to us!