It's time to be real!

How long has it been since you decided to deal with your wounds from the past? Personally myself I have been masking the pain and filling the voids with drugs, women, money, work, etc., for most of my life..

About a year ago I have a life changing event in my life and started into my old patterns of filling that void of the pain I had with different things. For the last 8 months I ripped of the bandages and started to deal with the wounds I had.. "God never gives us more than we can bare.." Recently after dealing with these wounds God gave me more stuff to deal with.. "Wow God" I didn't think I could handle it.. Instead of running back to my old ways.. God brought me back to to point in my life of were the problem started.. First being married not getting what I wanted out of my relationship I started to fill that void with women, drugs and gambling..

God took me to a place last week where i saw myself doing the same thing not being happy with my life as I still continued to fill those voids with being false. Example, trying to look good in front of the Church by stepping up into leadership, but only doing so to show what a Godly Man I can be to gain points with a women in my life.. The list goes on by the way I was filling those voids n my life. A lot of times we go back into drugs or alcohol, using men and women, money, shopping, food etc.. this is not the answer, God is!

Today I'm dealing with things head on and not pretending to be someone I am not. It's time to get real with ourselves as we are dealing with these pains in our life's know that your not alone..

Celebrate recovery helps us deal with were the problems lies and helps us to get threw this by showing us that God must be the center focus of or life's.. Look at the step One in this group..

We must put God first n everything we do and deal with are problems by giving them to Him, all of our sins are covered by His blood, we don't need to fill those gaps n are lives with anything but God and His love.. I refuse to be fake and fill those voids in my life and today i stand on solid ground (really) putting on the full coat of armor and taking up His cross daily..

When I wasn't a Christian life was easy, when I became a Christian God gave a conscience and by feeling bad about some of the choices i made in my life instead of trusting in Him I ran from Him..

It starts today as you can take a stand a deal with your wounds, it is painful at times but really how long must we go without dealing with things.. The time is now as I encourage you to step up to the plate and stop being fake about things and deal with the core of the issue we have, then on the road to recovery will begin.

This is merely a confession of myself and wanting to be real about things.. Don't beat yourself up by masking those wounds you have, for it is time to be real!

Andy