Month: April 2018

May my teaching drop as the rain . . . like gentle rain upon the tender grass . . . Deuteronomy 32:2 I wish I could say that I went to chemical dependency treatment just once and then had life all figured out. The painful truth though, is that this last inpatient treatment was not my first…
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Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:6 When we find ourselves in difficult times, many of us try and fix our environment. Our first impulse is to look outward…
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I have set before you today life and good, death and evil . . . Therefore choose life . . . Deuteronomy 30:15-20 For reasons I will not go into, I recently found myself 25 feet under water, looking up at the surface. In that moment, I had a choice. I could stay at the…
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For this commandment that I command you today is not too hard for you, neither is it far off. Deuteronomy 30:11 When I first found recovery, I looked at those with years of sobriety with envy. I had struggled – and failed –  repeatedly to stay clean for a just few days, so years seemed unattainable.…
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Return to the Lord your God . . . obey his voice in all that I command you today . . . then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you . . .Deuteronomy 30:2-3 At times, I reject certain ideas because they are attached to other religions. I do…
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You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you. Deuteronomy 15:15 Every spring, as warm weather approaches, I promise myself that I will run or bike outside every day. When the weather does turn, I keep my promise for a few weeks, but by…
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Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn. Deuteronomy 10:16 I often write of how faith must lead to some apparent change in our lives or it is not truly faith. The temptation for many of us then, is to change some behavior to prove our faith. I don’t drink or…
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What does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and to keep the commandments and statutes of the Lord . . . Deuteronomy 10:12-13…
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Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ You shall remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth . . . Deuteronomy 8:17,18 When I relapsed into drug use several years ago, I had previously…
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We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4 I would be hard pressed to think of any significant misdeeds that I have committed in life that…
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