Funny, right?
I saw this sign while shopping last week. So true. I do eat salads, but can’t share anything inspiring that happened while eating a salad.
But, my story also includes overuse of alcohol that took me to my bottom.
Now there’s a great story.
The story isn’t the alcohol or even the trip to the bottom—The story is how my life has been transformed since taking alcohol out of the equation 7,662 days ago and surrendering to God. It is truly God’s story through me.
When I woke up one day in the middle of the day and realized I could not do this life anymore on my own power in this broken condition, I finally surrendered to God. “Help me God. I can’t do this on my own.”
Step One: “We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.”
My life started when I admitted I was powerless. The partnership began with letting go. Not “giving up,” but surrender—big difference. I had to release control over everything in my life to God. Only then, could He come in and restore me to sanity—to break the patterns of bad behavior and be able to submit to God’s will and not my own will. It does not logically make sense, I know, but it is true—surrender to win.
I became free.
Free to choose again. The power that was there all along became accessible to me, when I moved myself out of God's way. Power to be who God meant for me to be. My will and God’s will became aligned.
I had to take that first step of letting go of the alcohol that I thought, at first, was helping me, calming me, relieving the stress…when, in fact, it was taking me further into physical dependence upon it as I continued to repeat the pattern daily. The pattern was solidified by conforming to that solution—over and over. I was looking to the wrong source for comfort and relief. The only way to break this pattern was to surrender to God. I could not do it alone.
When that happened, I was released from the bondage of myself and became willing to be useful again to God. I had access to Him and He had access to me. Now…
I get to:
Pray to be available for life.
Ask God to renew my mind daily.
I urge you to try it.
It works.
"Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
Romans 12:2
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