Well, yesterday’s morning event went just as God would want it to. The “normal people” (as I referenced yesterday) were just as receptive and accepting as anyone in a Celebrate Recovery group. So many took a moment to thank me for coming. I will never get over the truth of how God works taking such ugliness and turning it into a message of hope for others. One lady came up to me almost unable to speak she was so choked up. She eventually was able to whisper–“your story is mine”. All I could do was pat her hand as we both welled up with tears (and as I do again right now).

Tonight’s lesson for Celebrate Recovery is CONFESS. I get to teach it. As soon as we confess our sins to God, He forgives and then forgets. The relationship with God cleanly starts when we confess our sins. But, the idea of confess runs much deeper as God wants us to continue to confess not only to Him, but let Him use our story of sinfulness by our confessing it to others. For a lifetime I asked God to obliterate my past from my memory as He does for Himself. He wouldn’t do this for He had a very different plan for my story. I hung on to my story for almost 60 years before I fully made it a tool in God’s Hands rather than a tool I would cautiously use. As I’ve already stated above, I will never get over the miracle of God taking our sinful mess and turning it into a LIGHT of HIS GLORY at work for others. This is why He wants us to remember our past–not to torment us, but for Him to use to help others with their own.

WHAT A GRACIOUS GOD WE GET TO SERVE!