THAT "6 to 10" SPACE"

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

^1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

I have spent the last couple of months participating on a panel of recovery and treatment professionals. One of our goals is to improve the overall success of folks who emerge from treatment and migrate into recovery.

Yesterday was the culmination of those session and I believe the team came up with some great ideas. The good news is we have a little funding to implement them. So please join me in prayer as we begin to put pen to paper or hammer to nail on the recommendations.

The panel consisted of pastors and small group leaders, police officers, directors of treatment facilities, mental health professionals and current recovering folks. And while opinions and ideas were varied and the solutions proposed vast, one thing was clear.

Recovery is a choice.

As much as we, the “so called experts” can build, construct and concoct opportunities, create education and mentoring offerings and housing solutions, the decision to recover begins and is MAINTAINED in the simple 6 to 10 inch space between someone’s ears. And motivating “good” choices has been the challenge of not just addiction and recovery professionals but that of doctors, dentists, pastors and many others for the balance of time.

In fact our entire existence and way of life was impacted and started by a choice. Eat from the tree or not if memory serves.

Every day each of us are presented with choice after choice. I call them Y’s in the road. For the one in recovery, we have chosen the wrong route for a long time and now are seeking to go left where we used to go right. But we aren’t exclusive or alone in our challenge with choice. All of us have “knowledge of right and wrong”. We have that garden pair to thank for that.

What we do with that knowledge is simply a choice.

So today I just want to encourage all of us to “seek GOD” when it comes to choice. Let’s let GOD help us with that little six to ten inches of space in our heads. GOD has the best for us in mind. He has even offered to help us to navigate the landscape!

James 1:5

If you don’t have all the wisdom needed for this journey, then all you have to do is ask God for it; and God will grant all that you need. He gives lavishly and never scolds you for asking.

And never believe for a second that you have it all figured out. Instead allow GOD to influence your choices.

Proverbs 3:5

Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; he’s the one who will keep you on track.

Don’t assume that you know it all. Run to God! Run from evil!

Your body will glow with health, your very bones will vibrate with life!

I know there is nothing profound or revelatory in today’s little encouragement. But our choices are powerful and they do compound. We can't discount them. Every one of them leads to a consequence; good or bad.

Therefore let’s resolve today to taking the “right Y” in the road; making the best choices possible; to giving GOD access and reign over that little space behind the eyes to asking Him for help!

Why?

Well for starters that “body glowing with health and bones vibrating with life” sounds awfully good to me!

How about you?

Have a great weekend…

I love you all!

Freedom Church

Pastor GDelaney