I’ve said many times that I was escaping reality when I was
drinking alcoholically. Those same desires for escape continue to be issues for
me now. I avoid pain. I bury stresses. I ignore confrontation. I look the
other way when I need to get involved. The difference is that now that I am
sober, I am seeking reality. Even when I choose not to move into
difficulties, I know that I must face them. In time God always gives me strength to deal
with them. I can take baby steps. I can break down difficult tasks into
do-able plans of action.
Recently I saw another truth about all of this; reality
is only in God. When I want to know what’s really going on, God is
the one who holds the answers. The keys to ultimate success are in His hands. Eternity
trumps the quick fixes. I can count on His word to lead me into understanding.
I can rely on His compassionate counsel. As soon as I depart from God’s way,
and start saying things like, Well, he deserves that, or She is
hopeless, I’m out of God’s reality. Those
are evil predictions. They are the responses of those who do not know God. People
once said those things about me. They figured there was no way out for me. Here
is the truth and the reality though…
“BUT GOD, who is
rich is mercy, because of His great love with which He loved me, even when I
was dead in trespasses, made me alive together with Christ, for by grace I am saved.”
Eph 2: 4-5
And He continues to do just that; He brings death to life every day. He can do it for anyone.
I have been rescued from alcoholism since January 7th, 2006. The miracle of God's grace and restoration continues to prove itself ~ Kerry