IT IS A WAR

All this virus stuff.....keep your distance.........wear your mask...........the numbers keep rising.....today there are "X" number of deaths in the nation..........All of this has taken a toll on a lot of people.  I would even venture to say that the recovery community has been hit equally as hard as other parts of our society.

But what I see all around me is that people have pulled back....quit going to meetings....and even isolated themselves. Under the banner of "Virus Protection" they have even embraced old thoughts, old ways and old habits.

The one thing that always overshadows recovery is the ever present possibility of death. Over dose....suicide.....mental and emotional death that just sucks the life and progress out of a body that has been on the road to recovery. I'm not saying that every one falls prey to this, but the potential is there if we don't do something about it.

Now is  not the time to isolate....
This is not the day to miss a meeting....there is a particular phrase that is found in the book of Revelation that, to me, sums up the needed attitude we all need to embrace during this time.

Rev. 2:7 - "To him who overcomes"   /   Rev. 2:11 - "He who overcomes" /  Rev. 2:17 - "To him who overcomes"  /  Rev. 2:26 -"To him who overcome"  /  Rev. 3:5 - "He who overcomes" /  Rev. 3:12-"He who overcomes" /   Rev. 3:21 - "To him who overcomes".

7 times the phrase "OVERCOMES" is used. To me those words signify those who do not quit this journey with Christ. Those who push forward and with each step meet the day head on. Hard? you bet it is. Will you want to quit? Sure you will. But you don't because with every step, with every day you move ahead you are overcoming.

You cannot surrender and return to the needle. There is no life found there. You cannot crawl back into the bottle, there is no hope there. You cannot a line or a pill, there is no future there.

If you want to surrender.........if you want to fall upon something........if you want what you cannot do for yourself..........then fall upon Jesus. He alone, in this great big messy world, is the only hope and answer for all of us.

But don't return to the darkness. Come back to family and community. If ever there was a saying that is true, it is "There is strength in numbers". And when those numbers are like minded and traveling the same path, there is encouragement and love there.

Hope to see you this Saturday night at The ReCovery Church on Broad Street. 7 p.m. and if you don't remember anything else......don't forget this. "God loves you and so do we!"

God on you..

mbb