God! --Don't Leave Home Without Him....

Job 38:5-7

"Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

The verses above are from a conversation that God had with Job during Job's really dark times. God is pretty much laying out his credentials for who He is. Found in these credentials is the idea that God truly does operate above and beyond anything our little finite minds could ever muster up.

You know, I think part of the enemies plan in our world today is to make every thought we have about God disappear. To vanish and leave the collective minds of men and women every where. The devil works hard to discount what God does and discredit who He is and His plans for mankind. IF the devil can push any thought of God to the back burner of men's minds, then our thoughts would not cause us to look to God for help, but to ourselves. We become little "g" gods. We take on the attributes of Genesis 3:4---- "You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it (the fruit that changed every thing) your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

I've said it before and I cannot say it enough. If I buy into that bunch of devilish malarky, then I don't need God if I am like God.

When God is pushed out of the collective mind of humanity, then we truly are doomed.

I don't want this to sound like the devil is all powerful and full of mojo. Ain't no mojo like God's mojo. He invented mojo and can dish it out like nobodys business.

II Corinthians 4:3-4 reads: But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe , less the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

The devil does not mind us believing in God.

As long as that belief remains an abstract thought in our brains.

The danger comes when God becomes a reality to our hearts and then becomes tangible and physcial through the actions that follow the heart change. That is a fancy way of saying....we start living like we really are followers of Jesus. We start actually doing what the Bible points us toward in our daily lives. That's why the devil doesn't even mind us going to church, singing in the choir or on the praise team. He doesn't mind us putting a couple of dollars in the offering plate. He just doesn't want us living out the Kingdom principals, because when we do, it affects those around us as we share what God has done for us.

As far as recovery and rehab, twelve steps and big books....
The devil doesn't even mind us working the Twelve steps as long as we keep God out of it.

Keep the terminology vauge and somewhat mystical, that way you can define it any way your little ol' human mind wants to. You see when God gets all down in my recovery.....when the reality of God becomes a part of my daily journey then my Higher Power has a real name..........that would be Jesus Christ. Jesus has a way of messing up the devil's plans an purposes. The most amazing thing (you could call it a miracle) is watching this Jesus lay hold of the life of a person who is so far gone in sin and destruction, that every one (and I mean every one) has given up on them. Nothing this world has to offer has worked to better this person. Not medicine, not jail, not rehabs, not interventins....nothing has worked. But you watch the Spirit of God come and touch an individual and you see a person brought back from darkness and death. Now...that life, full of the God's Holy Spirit, lays hold of the discipline of the Twelve Steps and begins to walk it out.

A good friend of mine has always told me...."Mikey.....You can't follow the twelve steps and not bump your head on the cross."

No matter where you go today....

No matter what might come your way today....
Don't leave home without God in your life......

God on you.....

mb