My Best Friends

My best friends:

My dysfunction, my bad habits, my addictions are my besties. I know them and I love them. They are comfortable friends. I neeeeed them in my life.

I know the consequences of having them in my life.
But Change is scary. It’s why I can’t leave my besties behind. If I let go of them, what will fill that void? Whatever will become of my identity? Who will I be without them?

Guilt walks with me and my friends. A constant companion because I know this is not God’s plan for me but how can I just let go?

Freedom from these besties that we all cling to doesn’t create a vacuum. It’s an opportunity for God to provide a replacement! A journey that brings us closer to him protecting us from the pitfalls these old best friends want to lead us into so that we are free to make new friends; Hope, Compassion, Comfort and Peace. (We are new creatures)

Clinging to our Baggage only allows us to look inward, selfishly focusing on ourselves -Freedom in His Grace allows us to look outward, to see those that need His Grace, too.

What God does in your life is never meant to stop there. We are to be the Light that draws others to the same grace and freedom that we have in him.
It’s ok to be broken, it’s how the Light shines through.

Stop carrying a burden you were never meant to carry-guilt is just such a burden. Romans 8:1 “ There is now no condemnation…”