Amos 5.14 Seek good, not evil, that you may live. Then the LORD God Almighty will be with you, just as you say he is. Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts.
Last week I talked about the plan for your life. I said that the first stage of finding the plan for your life is to Listen to it. By that I mean to pause and ask yourself "what are the events and circumstances of my life saying to me?"
By doing this we introduce to ourselves a habit of self knowledge. It could be that you keep a journal and are already doing this to a point. But you can take things one step further and ask "Did I seek good today?" - it can be a revealing question. If we didn't seek good just how harmful have our actions been?
The reason people change when they encounter God is because he has a disconcerting tendency to hold a mirror up to our lives - so that we can see ourselves as others do. Sometimes we need to do that in order to recognise what is wrong with us as well as what is right with us. The mirror is there so that we can have enough self knowledge to want to change.
If we are struggling with addiction we can find that we haven't "sought good" because we are so busy looking to feed the addiction. It pushes our time for others out of the way.
But remember that the love that comes from God is a free gift for your life. You can exercise your own will as to whether to accept it. Let God in and he will bring you to an exciting new phase of your life.
There is a prayer that has helped a lot of people over the years.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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