Wednesday, November 3, 2010

What shall we do?

Recently I serve as a Drug and Alcohol addiction Counselor, I found so much joy and gratification when seeing addicts have turn around their disrupted behavior and change to become a productive people to society. Best of all they connected back to God, look to God 's way for their joy, faith , hope and love. I was so thrill and counting my blessing for His calling that has placed on me.
After recovery Addicted leave the treatment center, then I will do follow up in nurturing them, guild them to stay focus on the right path in staying sober. Unfortunately the story of recovery addicted going thought mood swing, from being depress to anxiety during Alcohol/other drug withdraw, it should be a natural and expected. Gradually leading to needy, compulsive and obsessive behavior. As these emotion begin to weight heavily on me , over an extended period of time. Due to all their frustration, anger and tension build up, causing addicts to cry out for their healing shelter like home. Instead they come straight at me as their confidant, and rescue. Oh! my thoughts of fear, anxiety and devastation are race out of control. No! I do need my boundary to stop being their enabler. As I feel hurt, sorrow and despair. I was detached , and disappointed at the situation and myself.

During Sunday service, Pastor Leaf share a quote: Repentance is the beginning of enter God's Kingdom.
"turn to me and be saved, all your ends of the earth, for I am God, and their is no other" Isaiah 45:22. Threshold the pain in repentance. Oh my gosh....! I pray and pray, but totally forgot that I need to humbly bow down and repent of my Sin. How often do we forget to repent for our daily Sin ,before asking Him for blessing/guidance?
The important point is to empty out my laundry list to Him. the longer I confess my arrogant, the more I discover that " I " can not do it all to change others. After all, it is God's mission, and I am just a messenger, a worker on the field. The harvest is the end product for the Lord.
Gradually, after repentance, I realize that it is not my power, not my action, not my wisdom, not my expert, not my love nor my compassion that can change their addicts to sanitise. it is no longer " my " . It is all His glory!
"Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death" ll Corinthian 7:10.
Then what shall we do?
"Humble yourselves, therefore under God's mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time"IPerer 5:6. Christ is our Redeemer. His love to us never fails! When we place our faith in God, all things are possible.

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